“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!
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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.]