3D Touch enhancements

If you’ve set up accessories and scenes in the Home app, swiping left on Control Center a second time reveals shortcuts to Home options you’ve marked as favorites. Tap things like lights to toggle their status, or use 3D Touch for additional control, such as sliding a finger up or down to adjust a light’s brightness. Tap the house icon to open the Home app.

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A firm press on an iPhone’s Home screen folder offers an option to rename it. When you tap that, the folder opens with its current name wholly selected so you can type over it.

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When a folder displays a badge notification, you don’t need to go inside it to find the app. Apply 3D Touch to the folder and its Quick Actions will list apps inside that have notifications.

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Downloaded a cool app and want to tell someone about it? You don’t need to find it on the App Store in order to share a link to it. Just 3D Touch its Home screen icon, choose the Share command, then pick a method from the Share sheet.

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Concerned about your cellular data usage? Apply 3D Touch to the Settings app’s icon in iOS 10 for a shortcut to the Mobile Data page, where you can monitor and manage it, including any Personal Hotspot set up.

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Some apps show a summary and extra shortcuts when you 3D Touch their Home screen icon. For example, Reminders shows timed items, Calendar shows upcoming events and alarms. Tapping Add Widget (top right) adds this to Today view; but consider how many you want to add, in case Today becomes too crammed, and so less useful.

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When an app is downloading, 3D Touch its icon on the Home screen to pause the download, cancel it or, if multiple apps are downloading, prioritize it by moving it to the top of the queue.

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Save yourself a couple of taps when retrospectively adding a time or location to an item in Reminders by using 3D Touch on the item.