Rejoice iPhone users as there is no need to purchase the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus to experience the new Force Touch technology or what Apple termed as 3D Touch. The feature is coming to old iPhones and will be available to those willing to jailbreak.
The hardware 3D Touch upgrade will not miraculously come to the iPhone 6 and the earlier models as obviously that is exclusive to the iPhone 6S. What Cydia developer Elias Limneos is trying to recreate, according to WCCF Tech, is the 3D Touch setting minus the hardware jump. Already, Limneos has a working tweak that can be used on jailbroken iPhones.
It should be noted that these are iPhones running on the jailbroken or modified version of iOS 8, the latest of which is the Pangu-created iOS 8.4.1.
"The tweak will not be able to distinguish between a hard or soft press, it will simply apply 3D Touch actions to the older iPhones or iOS 8," WCCF Tech said on its report. As mentioned, the Cydia tweak cannot replicate the touch and pressure sensitive nature of Force Touch or 3D Touch but it will facilitate the "peek and pop menu," features that serve as entry-points by users to other layers of device functionalities.
It appears that in the general tweak implementation, "different apps would have different actions," the same report said, adding that Limneos took great pains in in providing a tweak environment that is closest to the 3F Touch feature of the iPhone 6S.
It was not mentioned in the report what particular old iPhone model will benefit from the Cydia tweak but should Limneos deploy the application once the iOS 9 jailbreak becomes available then hundreds of millions of will potentially have a feel of 3D Touch without jumping to the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
Per Apple, iOS 9 will begin rolling out September 16 and the software is ready for download even by Apple fans on iPhone 4S, which was released in 2011.
As for the iOS 9 jailbreak release date, it is definitely happening anytime soon as veteran iOS hacker iH8Sn0w proved, as reported by 9to5Mac, that Apple's new mobile operating system can be jailbroken.
However, iH8Sn0w is letting other developers to continue with this preliminary works - meaning the fully functioning and public release of iOS 9 jailbreak will have to originate from the likes of Team Evad3rs, the Pangu Team and TaiG.