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There are a few workarounds that don't involve undocumented APIs for this, as someone else in this thread mentioned.

Facebook's Groups app uses (disclaimer: as far as I can tell) an interesting technique involving saving data URIs to the home screen and then deep linking them.

You can roll your own browser interface using WKWebView — if (for whatever reason) your app supplements the browsing experience, you'd use WKWebView.

SFSafariViewController provides its own Safari-like interface and has an extremely limited set of configuration/customization options.

A long press is a function of time: "How long has the user pressed?"

3D Touch is a function of pressure: "How hard has the user pressed?"

In practice, things that your application previously accomplished with long presses may be more suitably accomplished with 3D Touch — things like contextual menus or shortcuts come to mind. Additionally, iOS has new APIs for presenting content using 3D Touch. The article briefly references them.

Would this not be equally useful just triggering the standard iOS camera? Tap to focus, volume buttons and a large shutter button take photos.

Zipcar vs. Car2Go 12 years ago

I think the car2go account upgrade to Moovel allows international rentals through the service.

I visited Vancouver recently and was surprised by the number of designated parking spots the city had for car2go. I wish more cities would do that.