Control Center on iOS 18 Rumored to Feature Upgraded Music Widget and HomeKit Improvements

[ignatius345]

Agreed. I wish they'd come up with a better way to manage the Apple TV and HomePod controls compared to local/on-device controls.

All of us see inconsistent behavior where sometimes somebody else watching TV on an Apple TV will trigger the remote to show up on our phones. Other times, the mini playback controls show up automatically on the Lock Screen but the TV remote doesn't come up on its own. Sometimes I want the TV remote to stay up (iPhone 15 Pro AOD) and it refuses to. It's just very frustratingly inconsistent, unreliable, and there's just no clear logic as to why it chooses to do each behavior some of the time.

Yep! I have three HomePods and an Apple TV so it's always a bit of a struggle. Once something on Apple Music or Podcasts gets AirPlayed to a HomePod, it seems to then stream there directly and kind of "detach" from the iPhone -- which just gets confusing and weird, especially when there are multiple HomePods. Sometimes the volume button on the phone controls the speaker volume, sometimes not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[sledgehammer89]

Where are the iPadOS 18 rumors? Only macOS and iOS. But iPadOS was different in the past (eg widgets).

 

[jeremz1ne]

Did you miss all the other rumored features surrounding iOS 18? As it stands it’s shaping up to be a pretty big update so I don’t really get your critique here.

Will believe all the rumors when i see them next week...

 

[n-evo]

Will believe all the rumors when i see them next week...

Exactly. So no point in complaining about rumors either.

 

[contacos]

Can Apple add some „AI“ to finally prioritize the lights, which are actually currently ON in control center? Every so often it shows lamps that are off and not the ones that are on to turn them off easily 🙈 other times it just bugs out and shows lights as on when they are actually off and the button does not do anything.

 

[v3rlon]

We need a dedicated password app on iPhone nevermind an updated settings app

what is wrong with the built in password manager?

 

[v3rlon]

🤔 Here's an idea, how about make access to the control center something usable, so it's actually a thing?

I'm saying I like it, it's just a super PITA to get there with pull down from top right?
There has to be a better way?

Give us at least accessibility triple click, add 'open control center' to accessibility shortcuts?

Look, I'm not asking, I'm letting you know, that is why control center is such a nothing burger, it's a PITA!

Dragging down from the top right is somehow unbearable?
Outside of mind reading, how easy does it need to be?

Go to Settings
drag down to enable search
type "Back Tap"
scroll to bottom
turn ON
for double tap (or triple tap, your preference) click on it and then select "Control Center"

Now, just tap the back of your phone twice for control center. You don't have to tap hard. It can be anywhere on the back, even if you have a magsafe device attached.

And you get to keep your action button for whatever you want. You could even program the triple tap for something else if you like.

 

[svish]

Waiting to see all the changes coming to the new version of iOS

 

[JippaLippa]

They should allow iPhones to be homekit hubs...
Didiculous I have to buy a Homepod, Apple TV or iPad...

 

[arobert3434]

Great. Now if they could "update" back Books to its pre-iOS16 UI while they are at it we would have cause to celebrate. I don't know who inside Apple decided that it was so all-important to have the most minimal possible interface from the menu-interactive mode of Books (not the reading view) that needing sequences of 3 or even 4 clicks through complex navigation to accomplish what previously took one was worth it.

 

[IT Troll]

They should allow iPhones to be homekit hubs...
Didiculous I have to buy a Homepod, Apple TV or iPad...

Needs to spend the majority of the time on your home network though. I guess phones are more likely to be outside the home which would break some automation tasks.

 

[jlwarlow]

what is wrong with the built in password manager?

There isn't a password manager app. You have to go into the settings app then passwords to lookup passwords. To me this should be a seperate app. (There are work arounds like using shortcuts to launch passwords within settings that can then be added to home screen to mimik and app)

 

[v3rlon]

There isn't a password manager app. You have to go into the settings app then passwords to lookup passwords. To me this should be a seperate app. (There are work arounds like using shortcuts to launch passwords within settings that can then be added to home screen to mimik and app)

Isnt' that rather like the pronunciation of tomato?

The settings app contains the passwords. Its a little hair splitting for me.