iOS7 knows how long it will take...

[swordfish5736]

Must be notification centre, it needs to go, annoys me while playing games sometimes. How do I remove it from completely appearing.

Didn't realise spotlight was still there, thought it was also gone. No real need for it, now it's back it 2 fingers. It's a phone, how much searching do you need to do, it's not like it's OSX!

Short cut menu is also fine (control central - stupid name).

When you are in apps swiping once will pull the tab out, you can still swipe the top of the screen just don't touch the tab and you won't pull down notification center.

It's not a two finger swipe it's just a swipe from below the top of the screen. You can use it to open apps, music, email, messages, search Wikipedia, or your default search engine in safari.

It's called control center because you can control things.

 

[vexorg]

It's called control center because you can control things.

I could control things before, most of them while locked too (camera, video, torch, volume, music.....)

 

[C DM]

I could control things before, most of them while locked too (camera, video, torch, volume, music.....)

But not from a single (quickly/easily accessible) place, thus the "center" part of it.

 

[vexorg]

But not from a single (quickly/easily accessible) place, thus the "center" part of it.

Yes you could, most of it was easily accessible form the lock screen.....

Maybe you never used IOS6 properly ? it does more than play games and have social apps.

 

[C DM]

Yes you could, most of it was easily accessible form the lock screen.....

Maybe you never used IOS6 properly ? it does more than play games and have social apps.

Not even sure how my use or comments on it figure into anything here.

Aside from camera and music controls nothing else was really accessible from the lock screen before iOS 7. Nor were all the controls that are part of the Control Center in iOS 7 were ever accessible in a single place with one simple action from essentially anywhere/everywhere prior to iOS 7.

You can certainly argue that you don't really need those controls and/or don't need to access them often/quickly, but that doesn't change the facts relating to them that are pointed out above (or that Control Center is a fairly fitting, even if not very imaginative, name for that feature).

 

[vexorg]

but that doesn't change the facts relating to them that are pointed out above (or that Control Center is a fairly fitting, even if not very imaginative, name for that feature).

It's really just a short cut screen, no different to the bar at the bottom. The true control centre is the 'settings', if I cant control most aspects of the phone then it is hardly worthy of the name 'control centre'. But I suppose there is not much point debating apple's stupidity in naming.

 

[C DM]

It's really just a short cut screen, no different to the bar at the bottom. The true control centre is the 'settings', if I cant control most aspects of the phone then it is hardly worthy of the name 'control centre'. But I suppose there is not much point debating apple's stupidity in naming.

Naming aside (which is fairly inconsequential anyway), settings aren't quickly accessible from everywhere (especially the lock screen), and not everything in the Control Center is even in settings either (and a number of things that require more navigation within settings to get to separately).

 

[vexorg]

Naming aside (which is fairly inconsequential anyway), settings aren't quickly accessible from everywhere (especially the lock screen), and not everything in the Control Center is even in settings either (and a number of things that require more navigation within settings to get to separately).

There's nothing more than 1 or 2 touches away form the home screen.

And worse, there are things I dont want people to have access to when the phone is locked, but I still would like the older IOS6 shortcuts, like camera, torch, music, volume.

 

[swordfish5736]

I could control things before, most of them while locked too (camera, video, torch, volume, music.....)

Not airplane mode, wifi, bluetooth

You can easily set control center to not show on the lock screen

 

[C DM]

There's nothing more than 1 or 2 touches away form the home screen.

And worse, there are things I dont want people to have access to when the phone is locked, but I still would like the older IOS6 shortcuts, like camera, torch, music, volume.

You can easily disable control center from the lock screen and still have access to pretty much the same things that iOS 6 allowed you to (and there actually wasn't any access to torch/flashlight from the lock screen or anywhere else before). So you aren't losing in some way or being inconvenienced by this.

 

[Tyler23]

There's nothing more than 1 or 2 touches away form the home screen.

And worse, there are things I dont want people to have access to when the phone is locked, but I still would like the older IOS6 shortcuts, like camera, torch, music, volume.

There was no flashlight shortcut in iOS 6. In fact, the only way to get it was to install a third party app.

Unless you opened the camera, and then selected flash to "On"

 

[C DM]

There was no flashlight shortcut in iOS 6. In fact, the only way to get it was to install a third party app.

Unless you opened the camera, and then selected flash to "On"

and then switched to video mode and actually started recording to get the flash to stay on.