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Will Apple Kill 3D Touch?

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3D Touch was the highlight of the iPhone 6s. An iterative phone with a unique feature. Since then 3D Touch has always been with us on every iPhone released except for the iPhone SE. Although 3D Touch never saw much fanfare again after the hype of its release, Apple over the past 3 years has evolved 3D Touch into a legitimately useful feature that many people love to use. I've seen multiple people lament about the lack of 3D Touch when they downgrade from a modern iPhone to an older iPhone like the 5c. So why would Apple kill off such a useful feature on it's iPhones that is unique and exclusive to the iPhone? They're not let me explain.

 Apple Has Worked Too Hard On 3D Touch
Back In 2017 before the iPhone X launched the rumour mill was hard at work on what the new iPhone would be like. We'd get a new leak almost every day and one of the leaks said that the new iPhone would be delayed as Apple was having trouble integrating 3D Touch into the new OLED displays. Keep in mind before this point iPhones had only used LCD displays. Much to everyones surprise the iPhone X was indeed delayed by a month and it is not hard to imagine that this 3D Touch issue was one of the issues plaguing iPhone production.Here's what I don't get if Apple were planning on thinking about removing 3D Touch 11 months after they worked so hard to integrate 3D Touch into their iPhone, Why would they even put 3D touch on the iPhone X if that were the case!?

All Smoke And Some Fire?

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 We've been theorising about the removal of 3D Touch ever since the iOS 12 betas showed us that apple was bringing some 3D Touch features to it's non 3D Touch devices, like the iPhone 6, the 5s and SE. Notice something? All of Apple's non 3D Touch devices are discontinued devices which means that Apple's entire iPhone lineup  is currently 3D Touch enabled. Now looking at this information it would be logical to think that Apple is  planning on killing 3D Touch. But keep in mind no iPad has 3D Touch capability and so that kinda explains why 3D Touch replacements can be found in iOS 12 betas.That still doesn't explain why older iPhones without 3D Touch  are getting more and more 3D Touch features. Until you bring the 6.1 Inch LCD iPhone into the mix. The "Affordable" 2018 iPhone from Apple. By all means this iPhone looks like its going to be a great seller.It has a great design a huge display and it will probably be enough for most people. Just look at the iPhone 8 the cheapest iPhone of the 2017 lineup, the one with the single camera beat out its more expensive cousins for the top spot. It's not hard to imagine the 6.1 inch LCD iPhone being the iPhone 8 of 2018. With the great device that the LCD iPhone is shaping up to be, there's really not a lot of differentiation between the LCD iPhone and it's way more expensive counterpart. So it could be that Apple is planning on omitting 3D Touch on its cheaper iPhone to get people to jump ship over to the more expensive iPhone X and the iPhone Xs. Therefore I think that Apple is planning on killing 3D Touch only on the 6.1 Inch model
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