How do I turn off effects on a classic iPhone 5?

I love the form factor of my classic iPhone 5.

When I want to use a computer, I resort to my trusty Windows PC and its classic keyboard.

I have my phone in an Otterbox Defender and holster and it is worth the added weight. It is still small enough for a pocket or mostly the belt holster unlike today's monster phones.

The screen protector makes 'touch' in some apps 'touch-and-go' so I use a stylus and press enough to see that I've entered a character in a message, for example. Using that technique in Messaging to Send sends me 'over the top.' It is not intuitive how to get back out of the bubbles and balloons mode. I never want to use it.

I looked for 3D to turn off under General>Accessibility>3D but it is not there. I gather that came with later iPhone models.

Is there a way to disable this 'feature' I do not want?

thanks

baumgrenze

BTW - I had this composed and saw that my "Product" information at the bottom of this screen said I was running IOS 8.4. I figured out how to change it only to discover that when I returned to Discussions my message draft was gone. Message to me, compose in Word and copy and paste here to maintain control.