Apple had an advanced haptic response system in its mobile phones, 3D Touch, which disappeared with the landing of the iPhone 11 on the market, about two generations ago if we have the iPhone 13 that are around the corner. The system was replaced by haptic feedback that the company now wants to extend to its iPad.
Force Touch did the same by disappearing from the Apple Watch a season ago but the North American company has filed a patent application indicating that work to bring haptic feedback to the iPad. A system whose operation is not specified but that will create “a more efficient man-machine interface.”
The iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil, the great beneficiaries
As we have said, Apple is working on an advanced haptic response system for its iPads in order to make touches and gestures on the screen more useful and can, for example, serve as a notification prompt for certain actions. For example, to warn that we have dragged an object to the exact point, or that a gesture on the screen is well executed. Of course, it would also work for games.
“Haptic feedback, generally in combination with visual feedback, is often used in an attempt to make the manipulation of user interface objects more efficient and intuitive for the user,” says Apple in their request. the patent for the new system. “But conventional methods of providing haptic feedback they are not as useful as they could be“.
The new haptic response would be valid for both touch operation and the Apple Pencil
Throughout a document of more than 35,000 words, Apple describes a multitude of possible uses for this haptic response system for its iPad, although all facts coincide on the same point: to warn the user that the action they are taking on the panel is The correct one. Be careful, we are not only talking about warning our fingers when the operation is tactile but also warnings when we are using the Apple Pencil, so the iPad Pro would be the great beneficiaries.
Apple makes it clear in its patent application that it is not intended to replace “physical user interface devices, such as a physical keyboard” Rather, it seeks to expand the ease of use of its tablets to improve interaction with the screen, apps and the operating system itself. Among the credited members in the patent application, Apple includes Duncan R. Kerr, one of the architects of the “Find my” system of the company’s devices.
Via | AppleInsider