It never worked though. It would just pop in randomly at unexpected times. It sucked.

Hmm. It worked fabulously for me, and spared me from waiting a beat every. Single. Time. that I want to get what we now know as a long-press menu.

The problem was they made deep press and long press do different things, so it chose the wrong one regularly. I don't know why they ever thought that was a good idea. It was obvious that deep press should have just been "faster long press".

How did you get it to work on bumpy car rides, or while jogging?

There's your problem. I never exercise (JK).

But seriously, I suppose I just never use enough pressure when I'm "just" regular-tapping to inadvertently activate force touch under any circumstances, so I never had any ambiguous inputs.

I LOVED it. I could move the text cursor with precision AND do text selection with the same precision and FAST. In some situations faster and with more precision than I would have been able to do with a mouse even.

Such a great loss that they dumped it.

cursor move is still available with a long press of the spacebar, but I dearly miss the selection. that was the killer application of 3d touch I think.