Glossary

3D Touch The iPhone 6s and later models have a screen that is pressure sensitive. The 3D Touch feature enables you to press (you don’t have to press hard, just apply some pressure) on the screen to perform different actions, such as opening the Quick Action menu when you press on an app’s icon.

3G/4G/LTE/5G Names of various kinds of cellular data networks that you can use to connect your iPhone to the Internet. Your iPhone automatically uses the fastest cellular network available to it. LTE or 5G are the fastest, 4G is slightly slower, and 3G is slower than that. Because your iPhone automatically chooses a network to use, you don’t need to do anything, but it’s helpful to understand which network your iPhone is using.

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