5 Types Of Tap on iOS 11

"iOS 11 brings 5 different types of tap, but don’t panic":

[O]n an iPad running iOS 11 there are at least five “taps:”

1. Tap.
2. Long tap to drag and drop.
3. Longer tap to delete/move apps.
4. Special half-long tap to pop up a dock-extra menu.
5. Press-tap (or long tap) in notifications to access extras.

This last one is the iPad’s stab at 3D Touch. If you use 3D Touch on your iPhone, you’ll be familiar with the feeling of trying to 3D Touch something on your iPad, only to have nothing happen. In iOS 11, if you press as if you were doing a 3D Touch, the gesture works. It pops open a preview of a notification (allowing you to reply to a message, for instance). It also works in apps, popping up an info card in Maps. It works a lot like 3D Touch on the iPhone, only it does it without a pressure-sensitive screen.

No. 2 in the list — drag and drop — is a new kind of touch interaction in iOS 11. Functionally it’s like the old press-and-hold to rearrange icons that dates back to the original iPhone, but it activates more quickly. It’s timed so you don’t really feel like you have to pause, and you’ll know when the touch has activated because the icon darkens and inflates a little...