Accessibility - physical and motor
Haptic Touch duration
Most people call this how long you hold before a menu appears.
You can make touch and hold menus appear faster or slower, which helps if they either never appear or appear when you did not want them.
Available
This setting is present on your iPhone.
- We have this path on file but have not yet confirmed it against an official source.
Where to find it - iOS 13 and later
- Settings
- Accessibility
- Touch
- Haptic Touch
What it does
Fast, Default and Slow change the delay before a long press registers. There is a test area on the same screen so you can feel the difference.
What changes
When it is on
Not applicable. This is a duration choice.
When it is off
Not applicable.
Should you turn it on?
Battery
No real change
Privacy
No real change
Performance
No real change
Cellular data
No real change
Storage
No real change
Out of the box: Default.
Questions people actually ask
- Why do menus pop up when I scroll?
- Haptic Touch is firing too easily. Set the duration to Slow under Accessibility, then Touch.
If it is not working
- This replaced 3D Touch, which was pressure sensitive and present only on iPhone 6s through iPhone XS.
- Touch Accommodations offers finer control including hold duration and ignore repeat.