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hey this is dieter from the verge and this is the all-new iPhone 6s and the most important feature on the iPhone success to me is this new thing called 3d touch and basically what it means is that the screen on the iPhone is now pressure sensitive which gives you a bunch of options to do cool weird things so for example in the messaging app you can press a little bit hard on a link and it will pop up a little preview window of the webpage and then you can just lift your finger off and it goes away you can do the same thing with an address and it pops up a little preview of maps or you can press harder in and it actually opens up the maps app so that's called peek and pop you can peek at the thing that's being linked to or you can pop into the full thing the same idea works in say email so if I'm looking at my inbox I can peek at an email address by pressing a little bit and then I can pop into the email the other thing that you can do is you can peek at a thing and then you can slide up to see a bunch of options so on this email I can reply I can forward or I can like flag the email for later so let's peek and pop but there are a few other things that you can do so for example in photos if you take a photo it will actually show you a second of movement before and after if you hard press on the photo so here's just a picture of Jake but if I hard press on it there's a little moment before and after I took the photo which is kind of fun it also works with live wallpapers so you can have your wallpaper and if you push down on it you can see this fish move which is kind of fun and there's a few other random spots so if you're in a text entry field you can hard press on the keyboard and all of a sudden it the keyboard goes away and you have a cursor and you can move the cursor around and place it exactly where you want so you don't have to try and get it exactly right with your finger and then I guess the last thing is if you like swipe over from the left hand side of the screen and you do it really hard it'll actually jump you into multitasking which makes it you know a little bit more - to jump around there but one of my favorite features is 3d touch on the home screen you can hard press on the icons and get shortcuts inside the app so if a hard press on Safari I can go straight to my reading list but hard press on the camera I can take a selfie because obviously I want to do that and you can even hard press on messages to get a direct link into a conversation with somebody that you just talked to so let's basically it right now for 3d touch and it's a lot and what I like about it is it's consistent when you press on something you peek at it and then you can push it harder to see it and it's consistent across messages and email and so on the thing we don't know is if it will be consistent when third-party apps start supporting it I hope they do because the idea of peek and pop is a really intuitive and it really makes a phone feel a lot better