Wow, I had no idea it would do that. I would definitely not categorize that as "discoverable" UI. Thanks!
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iOS 17 Rumored to Feature 'Major' Changes to iPhone's Control Center
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I still don't understand the difference between "Tell me when I have to leave" and adding "Travel Time" to the event.
What I'd like to see is the ability to add a user-selectable amount of time to the in-advance alerts. "Tell me when I have to leave" doesn't know that after it chimes at me, I have a 5 minute walk out of the building to the parking garage and another 5 minutes to get out of the garage before I start driving the route.
I really wish they would revert to the old behavior for the Home shortcuts. I never need to see the Apple TV in my sister’s room, but iOS 16 changed it so that it’s now alphabetical instead of most used like it was before.
If I'm going to be somewhere for a week with no wifi, no cell service, no other bluetooth devices, then yes I am going to want to turn everything off. Every watt matters. Now, I'm not doing it often enough to care about it being in Control Center, but there are most certainly valid reasons for turning the radios off.
Wouldn’t that be something if they took the best of iOS 6, minus green felt and brushed aluminum, and combine it with the best of the current iOS/iPadOS, and wrapped it in graphics that looked like they were designed by experts in UI and digital graphics, and not by a sixth grader? Or not by an egotistical short-sighted petty grudge-holding minimalist with no prior focused expertise in digital UI design?
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I use control center every day and I'm not quite sure what I'd like to fix with it. The main problem is discoverability. I'd wager many people have no clue it exists, unless the accidentally swiped down on the wrong side of the screen trying to get to notifications.
damn…learn something new every day!I wonder how much that be to our benefit, as the current iOS control center isn't bad?
can’t think of any changes I want to Control Center, honestly…it’s pretty solid as-is. interested to read the comments and see what ideas people have. that being said—given I didn’t know about this feature, and consider myself a pretty solid power-user, I wonder if there’s some way that Control Center can be made more transparent (metaphorically speaking 😆).
With this Shortcut it could be easy. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/3ecc55522ef741b8a4a0c5f4b79a932f
When you click on that link, it asks you to save it to your own Shortcuts.
Then connect your AirPods (otherwise it won’t show up as an option in the next step).
Go to your shortcuts app. Find the new one. Edit it and choose your AirPods as destination.
Rename the shortcut how you like to see it on the homescreen.
In the context menu choose Icon on Homescreen (or its correct English terminology).
Done
From now on just turn on the AirPods and click on your created icon.
I’d like Wi-Fi to stay off if I turn it off in control center.
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I’ll give you a scenario. I live in a rural area where we rely on an LTE router with a maximum of 10 WiFi connections (had one that supported 20 but it broke and bandwidth is limited anyway). I do not want phone wifi on at the house using up connections that I need for computers and smart TVs, but I need it at other locations (renovation property) for personal hotspot. I need it on or off and to stay that way, not to be second guessed by Tim Apple.
Bluetooth on an iPad is about two orders of magnitude less useful than than the headphone jack. It drains your battery for nothing.
I don't have a smartphone so I won't venture an opinion on whether it's useful on those or not.
How about the option to have the Bluetooth and Wifi buttons actually, ya know, turn them off instead of just disconnecting for 24 hours. Here’s hoping iOS 17 really does let us install alternate app stores once and for all, so we can install tweaks from Cydia.
Found the one person who would justify this being ok, I knew I would find one.
I work on a ship. When I go outside, I quick disable Airplane Mode through Control center. When I go back inside though, I enable Airplane mode, and also keep Wifi off most of the time, because there are only a few areas where Wifi is active. On 99% of the ship, there is no Wifi signal, and being able to quickly enable and/or disable it would be 10x more useful than having to take the extra seven seconds it takes to go into the settings and disable it.
Yes! I requested a tech support call from Apple the other week, forgot to turn it on, went to voicemail, got an email that they missed me, had to request it again, toggled off silence unknown callers, forgot to toggle back on.
Why would you merge it with notification centre? just because they both pull down? Those are two very different sets of content. There's already a lot of stuff in both notification centre and control centre. Would not want to just smash them together. you'd never find anything. What if you mixed your music and your email together, would that work?
Could have sworn I tried that before... it works, thank you!
Android has not changed the look and feel as they are still using the same icons and themes sense 2015.
The only thing Android has done different is matching wallpaper theme set giving more flat look that is different theme matching look.
Apple can’t do that because of copyright they will have to come up with own theme or look as they cannot copy this.
Both Android and Apple used icons and home screen so I don’t know what you want other than different theme and icon set.
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Yes Apple is moving to modified skeuomorphism look now with MacOS and iOS but not full skeuomorphism.
Google is moving to material design well Microsoft is moving to windows fluid design.
Android probably will move to a more material design in the coming years.
What I hate is that I can't control or at least restrict what home devices show up in Control Center.
For reasons that are too long to explain simply here it's usually bad for 3D printers to lose power but I don't want it wasting power when it's done so I have a switch to shut it off remotely. But that damn switch always shows up in my control center and I have accidentally tapped it either incidentally or by quickly thinking it was another switch since the switches like to jump around and not be located in the same spot.
I just want to be able to restrict the switch from showing up in Control Center EVER. I also would like the ability to set up a switch to require a confirmation, either physically tapping on or verbally if using Siri, to turn off a switch.
Otherwise all I want is the ability to add shortcuts for third party apps. I work remotely and often forget to set my Slack status to away at lunch. Would be nice if I could have a quick action button in control center just to toggle that. Or even for first party apps, to have a record button for video that instantly starts recording when I tap it.
For reasons that are too long to explain simply here it's usually bad for 3D printers to lose power but I don't want it wasting power when it's done so I have a switch to shut it off remotely. But that damn switch always shows up in my control center and I have accidentally tapped it either incidentally or by quickly thinking it was another switch since the switches like to jump around and not be located in the same spot.
I just want to be able to restrict the switch from showing up in Control Center EVER. I also would like the ability to set up a switch to require a confirmation, either physically tapping on or verbally if using Siri, to turn off a switch.
Otherwise all I want is the ability to add shortcuts for third party apps. I work remotely and often forget to set my Slack status to away at lunch. Would be nice if I could have a quick action button in control center just to toggle that. Or even for first party apps, to have a record button for video that instantly starts recording when I tap it.
I hope they’re right, I’m not the biggest fan of control center, but I’m not sure how they’d improve it either.