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How To Turn Off Haptic Touch on your iPhone? Know Here

Last Updated On Sunday, January 17, 2021 by Moses Gitari Filed Under: iPhone

What are haptics? Haptics are a tactile way for your iPhone to respond to touch, pressure, or both, in the form of a small vibration. In case you are wondering how to turn off haptic touch on your iPhone or iPad, you have come to the right place.
Haptic Touch uses the Taptic Engine and delivers haptic feedback when the screen is pressed on latest Apple devices. . A Haptic Touch is a touch and
hold gesture, and it can be used across the
iOS 13
operating system.

What’s the difference between haptic touch and 3D touch?

The difference between Haptic Touch and3D touch is that 3D touch responds to different levels of pressure with different responses and features while haptic touch does not have various level of pressure
but rather the length of a finger press. This call and response is determined by the pressure sensitivity built into the iPhone screen, so depending on which
iPhone model you own, you will get one or the other or both. 3D Touch is a hardware-based feature because it is paired with pressure-sensitive screens.
Haptic Touch is software-based.
For example, the new
iPhone 11
and
iPhone 11 Pro
substitute 3D Touch with Haptic Touch. As on the iPhone XR, the haptic feedback consists of a subtle vibration in response to the long press. Older models
with touch-sensitive glass may still retain the original 3D Touch feature.
Regardless of whether the touch response is 3D or haptic, some people hate both equally, and could never find or get the hang of the feature’s light-medium-firm
press subtlety, or did not find the results edifying. If you want to turn off haptic touch, there are a few simple steps which you need to follow.
Here are the step-by-step instructions for how to disable haptic touch on iPhone and iPad running iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.

How to turn off Haptic Touch:

Follow these steps to turn off Haptic Touch:

  1. Start the Settings app on your iPhone.
  2. Tap Sounds and Haptics.
  3. Scroll down and toggle off system haptics.
    Turn off haptic touch on iPhone system haptics

That’s pretty much it. You have disabled haptic touch on your iPhone or iPad. For step-by-step instructions on how to turn off 3D Touch on your iPhone, check out our step by step guide How to turn off 3D Touch on an iPhone

Signing off

In case you have been wondering how can haptic touch be turned off on iPhone and iPad running iOS 13, there you have it.
Questions?
Let us know in the comment section below. We also have plenty of other articles that I suggest you check right now.

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