iOS 11 Preview: Control Center Gets Customizable With 3D Touch

[tom613]

I'm curious. You can choose your cellular signal?

Yes, in fact I have two mobile subscriptions: with one you can actually choose 2G, 3G and 4G
With the other one you can simple turn on or off 4G (or LTE)

 

[Smartass]

It's such a pain when you have Waze completely off and it's still draining your battery in the background...

This is the most annoying feature of Waze. I always turn the location services for it to off and turn on only when i need the app. I dont know what the hell is wrong with their developers that they had to implement such an annoying feature into the otherwise great app

 

[page404]

I like the customization but I wish you could make certain widgets take up more space. For example I want to be able to slide brightness without having to 3D Touch into it. Same with scrubbing tracks.

That's possible darling. You can slide from the screen or 3D touch and get a bigger slider. Or more options.

 

[Pruus]

It keeps me asking for login to iTunesstore. There’s some work to do. Safari is not as snapy as in 10.3. Editing in line does sometimes not display ‘cursor’ position.

 

[Jsameds]

It keeps me asking for login to iTunesstore. There’s some work to do. Safari is not as snapy as in 10.3. Editing in line does sometimes not display ‘cursor’ position.

Don't tell us, tell Apple using the bug reporter. That's what betas are for.

 

[alexgowers]

You know apple ****ed up when everyone comments about it being a mess.

It honestly is a mess though, you get no information at a glance on this screen and every button goes to a new UI rather than letting you change settings there and then. Pointless.

 

[dannys1]

Yikes... I'm all for customization, but it still has to be done well.

iOS is getting more complicated to use, most of it due to features that nobody asked for (stickers, GIFs, "live photos") while things like a dark/night theme remain absent.

How on earth do stickers, gifs and live photos make iOS harder to use??

 

[sinsin07]

Actually they aren't so subjective when they're coming from people who have done the research or have read the research. There have been considerable amounts of study on this stuff to find what works for human cognition and what doesn't. Apple did a lot of the research themselves (check out what they used to publish), but they've since abandoned this research, most notably to justify the look of ios 7. The only defense I've heard from Apple is "most people are used to this stuff now", which completely locks out new users (and there are ALWAYS new users). New or old, there are best practices in human-computer user interfacing.

I agree with some of what you mentioned, however your new user argument is anecdotal.
You mentioned your 66 year old dad having issues with imessage. Anecdotal.
My parents 75 and 77. Both switched from years of low end android phones to iPhone last year, no issues or frustration with imessage. Anecdotal.
My grandchildren, 6 and 7, no problems with iOS interface. Both can type out text, use camera to insert pictures, etc. Anecdotal.
YMMV

Actually they aren't so subjective when they're coming from people who have done the research or have read the research. There have been considerable amounts of study on this stuff to find what works for human cognition and what doesn't.

So there's one definitive study that everyone uses as a guideline? Or are there multiple studies all agreeing to the same results? Or could their possibly be multiple studies with different results, thus invalidating that "comments on interface are subjective"?

Apple did a lot of the research themselves (check out what they used to publish), but they've since abandoned this research, most notably to justify the look of ios 7.

Because you say its so means nothing without proof to backup the above.

The only defense I've heard from Apple is "most people are used to this stuff now", which completely locks out new users (and there are ALWAYS new users)

Any link to the above?

 

[Tech198]

.yikes... Control center now looks like a Swiss-army knife. Sure there are enough icons ? I'm pretty sure Apple missed some.

 

[Jsameds]

Not used it yet but I think it seems leaps and bounds better than that two page, space inefficient CC we had on 10.

 

[sinsin07]

NO ability to turn location on/off in control center?
God damn it, I really could use that.

Finally someone...why only on page 5?
This is one of the features I miss most after not having SBSettings anymore :-(
It's such a pain when you have Waze completely off and it's still draining your battery in the background...
A mystery that it's asked for by so few people.
Do you guys have location services always on? It's such a battery-drainage...

This is the most annoying feature of Waze. I always turn the location services for it to off and turn on only when i need the app. I dont know what the hell is wrong with their developers that they had to implement such an annoying feature into the otherwise great app

This may help: iOS 11 Users to Gain More Control Over Apps' Use of Location Services

 

[stanman64]

Apple went for the blanket approach when they only needed to add customization.

Everyone wants something different in their Control Center. Instead of trying to please everyone by adding half of the entire phone's controls, just make it so we can choose which ones show in CC!

A refinement of the current CC design, added with customizability would have sufficed. What I don't like about the current CC isn't the design, its the fact that I have no control over the CONTROL center.

 

[neosupreeth]

Truly horrible design. Needs to be a little sleeker and not all boxes.. This looks like an newbie-intern design.

 

[ayvittu]

Am I missing something, or is there really no option to toggle GPS on/off?!

 

[splitpea]

For phones without 3D Touch, will it respond to long presses?

 

[Pruus]

Don't tell us, tell Apple using the bug reporter. That's what betas are for.

Right, done that, but it’s good that the community knows what’s going wrong...

 

[vertsix]

Come on Apple.

If you're going to copy something that the jailbreak community has had for an eternity now, at least make it as good what the jailbreak community is offering.

 

[mistafro]

Where is the Dongles buttons lol

Macrumors award for the dumbest comment ever goes to...

 

[960design]

Right, done that, but it’s good that the community knows what’s going wrong...

Bug reporter was down, when last looked ( about an hour ago ). I tried to report that the bug reporter was down, but thought better of it. Afraid of the whole recursion ending universe scenario.

 

[jimbobb24]

Always amazed the 2 screen view got past usability. It was terrible. Trying to change brightness and getting switched to the audio pane. And back and forth. Just not a good design. This sounds much better.

 

[teddybearstand]

Bluetooth is really buggy right now.
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Not really, its looking a lot like this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2f/a5/0a/2fa50a30d356b28f45c7dd34bc31fe5f.jpg

And isn't that a mess?

 

[Raketemensch]

OMG, that completely random Control Center screenshot... Jobs would have stabbed someone.

 

[mdelvecchio]

I've never seen so many wannabes proclaim themselves experts in UI design. It will be fine.

 

[Col4bin]

I've never seen so many wannabes proclaim themselves experts in UI design. It will be fine.

Said the non-designer.

 

[Altis]

How on earth do stickers, gifs and live photos make iOS harder to use??

Clutter. More buttons, more screens, more menus. No longer do you simply get a keyboard in iMessages.

Apple was always praised for keeping things simple, free of clutter, often at the expense of more unique features.