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force touch
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 19 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Force Touch not discoverable, users can't tell it existsUnreviewed
20152026- Accidentally triggers Force Touch when a normal tap was intended2026-03-11
- Users never discover the Force Touch gesture exists2023-09-20
- Users can't discover which apps respond to Force Touch, so the feature is inconsistent and invisible2022-08-05
Force click triggers by accident and is unpredictableUnreviewed
20152026- Force Click is undiscoverable and inconsistent; does nothing useful in Spotlight or behaves differently in Finder2025-09-02
- Hidden force click functionality is non-standard and unpredictable when triggered by accident2016-10-05
- Triggers accidental clicks and moves files unintentionally; sensitivity settings can't fix it2016-02-05
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 21 complaints
- Accidentally triggers Force Touch when a normal tap was intended2026-03-11
- Force Click is undiscoverable and inconsistent; does nothing useful in Spotlight or behaves differently in Finder2025-09-02
- Users never discover the Force Touch gesture exists2023-09-20
- Users can't discover which apps respond to Force Touch, so the feature is inconsistent and invisible2022-08-05
- Replacement long-press is slower to register, and the feature is hard to discover2022-08-05
- Force Touch has no discoverability and no consistent meaning across apps2021-04-29
- Features have zero discoverability; people are surprised they exist and are hard to learn2019-07-16
- Force press fails often, drag-and-drop succeeds only about half the time2019-05-11
- Users can't see Force Touch, so they don't know the feature exists2018-09-25
- Unclear when Force Touch applies and what it will do2018-09-24
- Hard to tell touch, long touch and force touch apart; too many unknown actions2018-05-01
- App switcher force-touch actions are laggy and counter-intuitive, so many users turn them off2017-06-27
- Hidden force click functionality is non-standard and unpredictable when triggered by accident2016-10-05
- Force Touch has zero discoverability, so users can't tell it exists or how to use it2016-06-02
- Force Touch menu is fussy and hard to trigger, especially when sweaty or breathing heavily2016-03-21
- Triggers accidental clicks and moves files unintentionally; sensitivity settings can't fix it2016-02-05
- Users press hard on the screen expecting a response, and nothing happens for that spot2015-12-22
- Clicking fades out partway up the trackpad, so users must track finger position to know if clicks work2015-10-13
- Force Touch is invisible unless you already know it exists2015-09-09
- Click-and-drag is hard to do on the button-less trackpad2015-05-19
- Pressure-based clicks vary by user and are frustrating to share2015-03-09