iPhone 6s Display Teardown Reveals 3D Touch Elements

This morning iFixit has been at work tearing apart the iPhone 6s, showing the very many layers of the device's display now that it has 3D Touch. This technology is very similar to the "Force Touch" introduced in Apple's touchpad and Watch – here it has more levels of touch sensitivity for a greater number of abilities in apps. This 3D Touch feature is made possible by software as well as hardware – facilitated in this case by a capacitive sensor layer that wasn't present in past iPhone releases.See our full iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review. As Apple's 3D Touch requires that the user physically press in and move the display glass of the iPhone 6s, this requires that the glass be made of a different material than past releases. Apple worked with Corning (makes of Gorilla Glass) to create this new, slightly more pliable type of reinforced glass cover.

When the display is pressed, the point of contact between the user's finger and the new capacitor plate is minimized. This layer does not pinpoint the finger, it only detects that a press has been made. The standard (still present) digitizer still tracks the precise location of your finger.

The final dissemble includes eight distinct layers of iPhone 6s display. This is not the sort of dissembling of parts you're going to want to do yourself. As iFixit suggests, this is a job for a professional with super-expensive tools and high-end knowhow.

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