iOS 16 Update Makes Games Unplayable: Three-Finger Tap Triggers

Apple’s latest operating system update for its mobile devices, iOS 16, introduces a slew of new features, such as a more polished lock screen and message editing. However, the enhancement will inevitably bring some negative effects, and the “victims” this time are many rhythm music games on iOS.

In iOS 16, when you tap on the screen with 3 fingers at the same time, a shortcut pop-up window for copying and pasting will pop up, and swiping with 3 fingers at the same time can be used to undo or redo text input. This is very convenient if it is for typing, but when playing a rhythm game it makes it impossible for you to do it at all.

According to the statements and responses of multiple audio games on Twitter and official Discord channels, many rhythm game players, including “Rotary Rhythm Rotaeno”, and “Rhythm Source Point Arcaea”, have found that in many high-difficulty maps, using three at the same time Touching the screen with a finger will cause popups to appear and interrupt their normal play.

In fact, this problem already appeared when iOS 16 is still in the testing stage, but the problem still appears in the public version of the mobile phone system. And this is not the first time something like this has happened. As early as 2019, when iOS 13 was released, three-finger taps and gestures clashed with games such as PUBG Mobile and Fortnite.

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With iOS 13, Apple’s solution is to not recognize the corresponding input when the system knows these gestures don’t need to be used, such as when the player is playing a game. But I don’t know why this time iOS 16 has this problem again.