The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new patent to Apple for its next-gen taptic engine. The patent focuses on enhancing the component’s resistance to both physical damage and stress.

The handy but not vital tricks that come with 3D Touch are reportedly going away. Evidence continues to grow that the iPhone 11 will lack 3D Touch, and will instead include a smarter version of Haptic ...

If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 18.4 or later, the Apple TV Plus tab of the TV app now features a trailer for the upcoming Brad Pitt F1 movie that’s now enhanced with vibrations created by the ...

A shop in Shenzhen successfully modified the globally eSIM-only iPhone Air to add a physical SIM slot by replacing its Taptic Engine with a smaller vibration motor. The modded phone still supports ...

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