Accessing "Control Center" - Tips!

[AVP_NEWB]

Maybe I'm the only idiot who didn't figure this out right away, but I had a very hard time accessing control center until I figured out this trick. Now that I figured it out, I think it's actually really slick:

The person on the phone at Apple said to "look up" until the control center icon appeared floating above, and then tap to select it. I kept tilting my head back (to look upward), and either: nothing would appear, OR I would see a little flash of the icon but it would immediately disappear.

After much trial (and mostly error), I realized the key is to "glance" up. You have to be looking straight ahead, and then shift your eyes to look up, without tilting your head.

A couple of caveats:

It won't appear in the middle of a floating-window, so you have to either look at a "blank space" (somewhere in your field of view that doesn't have a floating window in it), OR you can look toward the top of a floating window (when you glance up from there you'll be looking at "blank space".

It does not appear to be possible to pull up control center while looking at a "Mac virtual display" window.

The step by step is:

1. Look at a blank space, or toward the top of a floating window
2. Shift your eyes to look up, without tilting your head.
3. Look directly at the little floating icon that appears, and tap your thumb & forefinger together

 

[tengorazon]

It took me a while to figure this out too. It’s not my favorite feature because I have to roll my eyes all the way up to see it. There is an option in setting to adjust where it is, but it mostly works to raise the icon, not lower it any further.

 

[sunapple]

🙄 (get it, the emotion and the gesture?)

One review mentioned you do need to tilt your head. Strange, it sounds unintuitive.

 

[AVP_NEWB]

🙄 (get it, the emotion and the gesture?)

One review mentioned you do need to tilt your head. Strange, it sounds unintuitive.

Yeah, information seems to be mixed here, but in my experience tilting my head causes it to NOT work. I have to keep my head still, and shift only my eyes up.

 

[AVP_NEWB]

Apple support sent me this link with their tips. This seems to confirm the “hold your head still while moving your eyes up” suggestion.

Open Control Center on Apple Vision Pro

Control Center includes many of your most common controls, like volume, Environments controls (like time of day), as well as the controls for Guest User, Travel Mode, and all your notifications.

support.apple.com

 

[attohs]

You can change how high you have to look up in the settings. I was getting annoyed at how often that little icon would pop up so I made it very high.

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Based on the frequency of needing to access Control Center on this device, I’m guessing there may end up being a gesture to display it — even if this was an accessibility feature, or something similar to Assistive Touch.

 

[caitlinface]

For the first day, I was constantly going back to the home screen to open apps, trying out both the button and the control center. It was getting tedious, I figured it might get resolved in a future update based on feedback.

Then I started using Siri, and I find it so much smoother. It's my primary way of managing opening and closing apps now:
Siri, open Slack.
Siri, close Slack.
Siri, go home.
Siri, open settings.
Siri, close all apps.
Siri, battery?
Siri, what time is it?

For me, much less effort than the gestures. She has a pretty good success rate compared to my experiences with phone and homepods.

 

[DblHelix]

Any way to open it when accessibility is on and head tracking is used instead of eye tracking?