Apple’s iOS 9 Likely To Support Force Touch

The upcoming models of iPhone are likely to resemble iPhone 6 and will include a Force Touch Display, according to reports.

According to a report on 9 to 5 Mac, Apple has designed iOS 9 to be Force Touch ready and is working towards allowing developers to integrate Force Touch into App Store applications. Force Touch on the iPhone will replace the long press and hold button interactions, mentions the report.

“Force Touch on the iPhone will offer similar functionality to the Force Touch Trackpads built into new Retina MacBooks and Retina MacBook Pros.” Force Touch will be unified into Maps to drop new pins, Calender for adding new events, media players for pressure sensitive scrolling and across the system to finding word definitions at a glance, as per 9 to 5 Mac report.

Minor changes will be incorporated to iMessage and stock keyboard in iOS 9, reports AppAdvice.com. For the iMessage, Apple will add support for read receipts on group chat threads ability to send read receipts on a contact by contact basis. Apple will also redesign the iOS 9 stock keyboard that includes the addition of a number of new editing controls in portrait mode. The Shift key has also been redesigned to make it easier for users to see when the caps lock or shift option is activated, according to the report on AppAdvice.com.

According to a Forbes report, Force Touch was introduced with the Apple Watch and it allows the touchpad or screen to identify the pressure of touches.

Mac Rumors says, Apple offered a major design overhaul with iOS 7 and with iOS 8, the tech giant introduced features like Apple Pay, Continuity and new app abilities like widgets and extensions. Apple might have a difficult time marketing an iOS 9 update, which does not have flashy additions as in the iOS 7 and iOS 8 but a fresh version of iOS is expected to be very popular with people having faced problems with bugs in iOS 8, says Mac Rumors.

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