“In July we learned more detail about Force Touch for the iPhone in an Apple Patent application,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Earlier in May we discovered a few more details about Force Touch as it applied to an iPad using a stylus as a paint brush,” Purcher reports. “Today, a new technical patent application from Apple has surfaced in Europe regarding Force Touch on an iPad employing sheet sensors and a capacitive array.”
“The touch device also includes a home button configuration that is different. Such a configuration may or may not be a part of the device/iPad,” Purcher reports. “Apple’s international patent was filed today in Europe. Considering that this is a patent application, the timing of such a product to market is unknown at this time. Apple’s invention, while focusing on a tablet, notes that it can relate to any mobile or wearable device.”
Much more, including Apple’s patent application illustrations and diagrams, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The evidence keep piling up!
SEE ALSO:
Suntrust ups Analog Devices to ‘buy’ on Apple’s Force Touch propagation – August 19, 2015
Analyst: Apple’s 12.9-inch ‘iPad Pro’ to offer optional Force Touch compatible stylus – August 19, 2015
How Apple’s Force Touch could change the way you use your next iPhone or iPad – August 17, 2015
Revealed: How Force Touch works and feels in Apple’s next-gen iPhone 6s – August 10, 2015
Apple’s Force Touch: The future of mobile interfaces – August 4, 2015
Why Force Touch on the iPhone will be awesome – July 29, 2015
Apple’s Force Touch iPhone 6s to be major differentiator, put rivals at further disadvantage – July 6, 2015
Apple assemblers begin making next-gen iPhones with Force Touch – June 27, 2015
Analyst: Apple’s ‘iPhone 6s’ to feature stronger 7000 series aluminum, slightly thicker for Force Touch – June 17, 2015
Apple’s new Force Touch patent application reveals stylus, virtual paint brush, 3D buttons interactions – May 28, 2015
Apple’s forthcoming iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6s’ Force Touch – May 26, 2015
Apple patent application reveals work on Force Touch for iOS devices and more – March 5, 2015
Force Touch rumored to arrive exclusively on ‘iPhone 6s Plus’ – April 2, 2015
Apple’s next-gen iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus to feature Force Touch – February 28, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
How about Force Multitouch? Will it work in multitouch? For example, driving a manual vehicle, since this requires easing off the gas while easing on the clutch, you would slowly reduce force on the gas, while pressing harder on the clutch. In this one example, multitouch combined with force touch is important and allows for a more realistic feel. Imagine all the other possibilities devs will come up with
Okay Luke, there is no need to use the FORCE,
Just use the iPad or iPhone equipped with FORCE TOUCH when they are on general release for sale to the public.
The suck level on your website is rapidly increasing, MDN. Embedded videos that auto play, pop up ads from the bottom of the screen, Fwhatever’s copious political vomit…all of these are making your site distasteful.
The old Apple/Mac comradeship is gone.