diff --git a/crates/egui/src/menu.rs b/crates/egui/src/menu.rs
index 7f7575ad2538..0633f1cbd05f 100644
--- a/crates/egui/src/menu.rs
+++ b/crates/egui/src/menu.rs
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ impl MenuState {
 
             self.open_submenu(sub_id, pos);
         } else if open
-            && ui.read_response().contains_pointer()
+            && ui.response().contains_pointer()
             && !button.hovered()
             && !self.hovering_current_submenu(&pointer)
         {
diff --git a/crates/egui/src/ui.rs b/crates/egui/src/ui.rs
index b663571eb246..405aed28dfbb 100644
--- a/crates/egui/src/ui.rs
+++ b/crates/egui/src/ui.rs
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ impl Ui {
     ///
     /// On the first frame, when the [`Ui`] is created, this will return a [`Response`] with a
     /// [`Rect`] of [`Rect::NOTHING`].
-    pub fn read_response(&self) -> Response {
+    pub fn response(&self) -> Response {
         // This is the inverse of Context::read_response. We prefer a response
         // based on last frame's widget rect since the one from this frame is Rect::NOTHING until
         // Ui::interact_bg is called or the Ui is dropped.
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ impl Ui {
     /// The rectangle of the [`Response`] (and interactive area) will be [`Self::min_rect`].
     /// You can customize the [`Sense`] via [`UiBuilder::sense`].
     // This is marked as deprecated for public use but still makes sense to use internally.
-    #[deprecated = "Use Ui::read_response instead"]
+    #[deprecated = "Use Uibuilder::sense with Ui::response instead"]
     pub fn interact_bg(&self) -> Response {
         // We remove the id from used_ids to prevent a duplicate id warning from showing
         // when the ui was created with `UiBuilder::sense`.
@@ -2886,6 +2886,7 @@ impl Drop for Ui {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
         if self.should_interact_bg_on_drop {
             #[allow(deprecated)]
+            // Register our final `min_rect`
             self.interact_bg();
         }
         register_rect(self, self.min_rect());
diff --git a/crates/egui/src/ui_builder.rs b/crates/egui/src/ui_builder.rs
index fcb74c27e79f..c19af8c336fe 100644
--- a/crates/egui/src/ui_builder.rs
+++ b/crates/egui/src/ui_builder.rs
@@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ impl UiBuilder {
         self
     }
 
-    /// Sense of the Ui. Should be the same as the one passed to [`Ui::interact_bg`]
+    /// Set if you want sense clicks and/or drags.
+    ///
+    /// The response can be read with [`Ui::response`].
     #[inline]
     pub fn sense(mut self, sense: Sense) -> Self {
         self.sense = Some(sense);
diff --git a/crates/egui_demo_lib/src/demo/interactive_container.rs b/crates/egui_demo_lib/src/demo/interactive_container.rs
index 083d4eb0c1ab..11d8afa48fef 100644
--- a/crates/egui_demo_lib/src/demo/interactive_container.rs
+++ b/crates/egui_demo_lib/src/demo/interactive_container.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use egui::{Frame, Label, RichText, Sense, UiBuilder, Widget};
 
-/// Showcase [`egui::Ui::read_response`].
+/// Showcase [`egui::Ui::response`].
 #[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize))]
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", serde(default))]
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ impl crate::View for InteractiveContainerDemo {
         ui.horizontal_wrapped(|ui| {
             ui.spacing_mut().item_spacing.x = 0.0;
             ui.label("This demo showcases how to use ");
-            ui.code("Ui::read_response");
+            ui.code("Ui::response");
             ui.label(" to create interactive container widgets that may contain other widgets.");
         });
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ impl crate::View for InteractiveContainerDemo {
                     .id_salt("interactive_container")
                     .sense(Sense::click()),
                 |ui| {
-                    let response = ui.read_response();
+                    let response = ui.response();
                     let visuals = ui.style().interact(&response);
                     let text_color = visuals.text_color();