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...whereas I use 3D Touch all the time to interact with notifications and icons. It's an important part of my "workflow" because I can do certain things ("yes I just took that medication") rapidly and barely interrupting what I was actually in the middle of doing, which is living my life.

I agree discovery of 3D interactions is terrible -- essentially nonexistent -- which does justify the epithet "useless" to some degree.

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Please, can you comment on which app you use to control your medications? From your brief description it sounds much better than mine, which forces me to go into the app, wait for a prompt, and then confirm that I took the medication. Thanks!

I use Medisafe, and interact through notifications, its widget, and watch notification. It gets the job done.

Good luck.

I actually prefer the “emulation” of 3D Touch my entry-level iPad has: the long touch. Just tap and hold for maybe a quarter second. It feels snappier to me than mashing my iPhone screen.

I suspect Apple may go that way, but, for example, long press and 3D Touch on a folder in springboard do different things, both useful.

That’s long press and even longer press on my iPad.

That only works on the 2 or 3 buttons that are hard-coded to support it and doesn't work in the general case (it can't work in the general case because it's literally just a long press, which already does other things).

Personally, pushing on the flashlight or camera buttons with 3D touch actually feels really satisfying, because it really does feel like I'm clicking a button even though I'm just pushing on my screen.

>I agree discovery of 3D interactions is terrible -- essentially nonexistent -- which does justify the epithet "useless" to some degree.

I've had iPhones for work for years and I'm just learning about this functionality today from reading this thread.

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