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F1 News: iPhone haptic trailer for the F1 movie is fantastic!

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The long-anticipated F1 movie comes to theaters on June 27. To celebrate the pending release, Apple has developed a haptic trailer exclusively for iPhones. Sorry Android users, you’re $hit out of luck. This leverages the smartphone’s Taptic Engine to let people “feel the action” right in the palm of their hands.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

With the iPhone exclusive trailer viewers “experience the power of the engines, the rumble of the curbs, and the intensity of every gear shift like never before with responsive vibrations.”

I tried it and it absolutely does.  It is the best trailer for the F1 movie yet. The trailer’s ‘haptic’ experience was actually better than I was expecting. I assumed it would be a simple, one-dimensional rumble that fired up during race sequences, but it’s a little more nuanced than that.

It’s available to stream right now via the Apple TV app on your iPhone (must install the app from the App Store), but requires iOS 18.4 or later.

F1 stars Brad Pitt and was directed by Joseph Kosinski. “I want them to see that we made the movie the right way, by having our actors actually drive, by working with Lewis, working with all the various teams, working with F1, to show we did everything possible to make the movie as authentic as possible,” Bruckheimer says about what he wants people who already love F1 to get out of this film – “[while] understanding it’s still a Hollywood movie.

“It’s not a documentary. So you have to understand that.

“But everything that Brad and our drivers do in the races, a Formula 1 driver has done in the past. So all these tricks that he does because he doesn’t have a fast car, other drivers have done this.

“Now, some of your fans won’t realize that – ‘oh, that never happened’. It happened.

“There’s a crash in the movie, and it’s based on the Martin Donnelly crash. And we got his permission, we did all the right things to do it.”

It officially opens internationally on June 27, but there are some special, one-off screenings in IMAX theaters on June 23 (in North America) and June 25 (internationally) for keen fans who signed up on the movie’s official website.

Apple’s F1 movie was also the star of its recent WWDC 2025 event, with the livestream opening with Craig Federighi (Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering) donning a helmet before doing a lap around the roof of its Apple Park building.