For the first time, the iPhone will now be able to recognise and interpret force from the user on three levels, offering up an entirely new method of interaction and user-experience. Apple has consistently chosen to play on the fact the the iPhone is one of the only modern smartphones that has had both the hardware and software designed to work seamlessly together.
The company is so proud of what’s been achieved in this respect that it’s actually produced video playing on that very fact. The introduction of 3D Touch revisits that philosophy by playing on the fact that both hardware and software have been designed together to offer a singular experience. Apple’s 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s is a continuation of the tapping, swiping and pinching gestures that were introduced with the original iPhone all this years ago.
By offering users the ability to apply varying levels of force when interacting with the new display, Apple has been able to introduce a whole new level of context into iOS. 3D Touch drags the iPhone 6s out of its two-dimensional world by adding force recognition to array of gestures that have become commonplace and so familiar to users of iPhone.
The newly introduced “peek and pop” gesture allows quick access to information such as email content without actually navigating away from the list of mails. A continuation of the gesture then “pop” the full content into view. 3D Touch also works seamlessly from the home screen of the iPhone, allowing a very new level of interaction with installed app icons. As an example, applying force to the native Mail app icon pops up a contextual menu offering options such as “Inbox”, “VIP”, “Search”, and “New Message”. Applying the same gesture to the Camera icon allows users to quickly “Take a Selfie”, Record Video”, “Record Slo-Mo”, and “Take Photo”. And so on. It works differently in different apps. Like Photos, Safari, Maps app, Multitasking switcher, drawing apps, system-wide keyboard and a lot more.
As with your desktop or laptop computer, it’s worth giving a frozen phone at least five minutes to see if it can overcome its blip and sort itself out on its own. The app you were using may unceremoniously remove itself from the screen and the memory, leaving you free to restart it and carry on again. That power and volume down button trick works for phones from several other manufacturers too, including LG.
Obviously there are a ton of different Android phones out there with their own combinations, so run a quick web search for your make and model if we haven’t already mentioned it. For the iPhone X, iPhone 8, and iPhone 8 Plus, quickly press and release the volume up button, then the volume down button, and then press and hold the side button (the power button) until the Apple logo appears.
If you’re on an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, press and hold the power and volume down buttons for at least 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears. For anything earlier, press and hold the home button and the top or side power button for at least 10 seconds. In most cases, that should be enough to get your device rebooted.
First, try charging up the phone, and if one cable (or wireless charging pad) doesn’t seem to be working then try another. You do have one final option, which is a hard factory reset. For iPhones, you need a Windows or Mac computer running iTunes. Connect your iPhone to the computer, then restart using the hardware key combinations we mentioned above—only this time keep holding until you see the recovery mode screen (a cable and an iTunes logo).
On your computer screen, click Update on the box that appears. Tunes will then attempt to restore iOS without erasing your user data. You’ll also need to know your Google sign-in credentials for when the device boots up again. With your phone switched off, press and hold the volume down button, then press and hold the power button until you see a robot on screen. Use the volume buttons to cycle through the options to get to Recovery mode, then hit the power button.
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