How to

Take a closer look at things

1 PEEK AND POP

In many apps, pressing lightly on an item (say, a message in a mailbox in Mail or a link in Safari) peeks at that content. If the item isn’t what you want, let go to close it. Otherwise, press harder to pop it open, or swipe up for available actions.

2 NOTIFICATIONS

Tapping a notification’s banner takes you to the relevant place in an app, but you can deal with an item where you are by pressing firmly on it, and then swipe down to clear it. This also works at the Lock screen and in Notification Centre.

3 PLAY BACK LIVE PHOTOS

If you take or receive a Live Photo (which includes a short amount of video either side of the still image), you can tell it apart from regular pics by an icon of concentric circles when editing it. Apply 3D Touch to a Live Photo to play it.