{"id":371371,"date":"2026-07-01T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371371"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:29:49","slug":"apple-watch-drops-force-touch-with-watchos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-watch-drops-force-touch-with-watchos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch drops Force Touch with watchOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple has updated the Apple Watch to watchOS 7, and <strong>Force Touch is gone<\/strong>. It was originally there to make better use of the watch\u2019s tiny display: press firmly and you\u2019d bring up contextual menus, watch face options, and other hidden controls. Now Apple has switched it off across the system, even on older Apple Watch models that still have the hardware for it.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The iPhone got <strong>Haptic Touch<\/strong> when Apple moved on from 3D Touch. The Apple Watch doesn\u2019t get that kind of replacement. A lot of those actions now live in visible menus, settings screens, or longer paths that take a few extra steps.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you used <strong>firm presses<\/strong> regularly, you\u2019ll notice the difference. Things that used to take one quick press can now mean more tapping and more scrolling, even if Apple had already been steering developers away from hidden actions and toward visible controls as Apple Watch screens got bigger.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also feels like a divisive move, but a very Apple one. One of the Apple Watch\u2019s early defining features <strong>disappeared almost overnight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get watchOS 7 through the Watch app on your iPhone, as long as your <strong>Apple Watch model<\/strong> is supported.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has updated the Apple Watch to watchOS 7, and Force Touch is gone. It was originally there to make better use of the watch\u2019s tiny display: press firmly and you\u2019d bring up contextual menus, watch face options, and other hidden controls. Now Apple has switched it off across the system, even on older Apple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-watch-drops-force-touch-with-watchos-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple Watch drops Force Touch with watchOS 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371372,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371371\/revisions\/371372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371371"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371371"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371371"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}