iPhone 13 New to iPhone 13, general confusion Pt 1

[dadders6]

Coming from Android, I can't grasp the concept of what control panel > "access with apps" even means. For instance, camera has its own icon on home screen, why would I 'access' it from some other app? The red and green (minus and plus) selection also seems confusing. In my mind, If something is turned ON, it should be GREEN, but it's the opposite (Red) in control panel. Also, when listening to voicemail, getting it into Speaker mode is confusing - there's no speaker icon, but the 'Hide" button actually UN-hides the speaker icon! Why not just put a speaker icon where the 'hide' button is? (attached jpeg) (iPhone 13, 15.7)

 

[Mr.Blacky]

What are you talking about? Where do you see minus and plus selection and where does it imply, that minus (red) means something is turned on?

 

[mpavilion]

Coming from Android, I can't grasp the concept of what control panel > "access with apps" even means. For instance, camera has its own icon on home screen, why would I 'access' it from some other app?

I think it’s pretty self-explanatory… turning off the switch means you cannot access the Control Center from within apps, only from the home screen.

 

[turbochgd]

Also, when listening to voicemail, getting it into Speaker mode is confusing - there's no speaker icon, but the 'Hide" button actually UN-hides the speaker icon! Why not just put a speaker icon where the 'hide' button is? (attached jpeg) (iPhone 13, 15.7)

Coming from Android I understand your question. Many differences, but you’ll get used to them.

The ‘hide’ button hides the keypad and gives you an array of options, including using speaker, bluetooth, etc. So having the speaker icon instead of ‘hide’ Is not practical or something you’d want.

 

[iStorm]

Coming from Android, I can't grasp the concept of what control panel > "access with apps" even means. For instance, camera has its own icon on home screen, why would I 'access' it from some other app?

mpavilion explained this well. Examples would be you're in an app, and want to turn off Wi-Fi, or turn on low power mode, or pause your music...you can do this from the Control Center rather than having to leave the app to go somewhere else. Or for your camera example, maybe you are in an app and you see something interesting you want to hurry up and take a pic of before it's too late (i.e. kid or pet doing something funny). Rather than leaving your app, going to the right Home Screen, finding the camera app...you can just swipe to open the Control Center and open the camera.

The red and green (minus and plus) selection also seems confusing. In my mind, If something is turned ON, it should be GREEN, but it's the opposite (Red) in control panel.

These are buttons. Tap the red minus icon to remove them, and the green plus icon to add them.

Also, when listening to voicemail, getting it into Speaker mode is confusing - there's no speaker icon, but the 'Hide" button actually UN-hides the speaker icon! Why not just put a speaker icon where the 'hide' button is? (attached jpeg) (iPhone 13, 15.7)

The "Hide" button is referring to the number pad. Tap it to hide the number pad, and show the other buttons.

 

[dadders6]

What are you talking about? Where do you see minus and plus selection and where does it imply, that minus (red) means something is turned on?

 

[iCorz87]

The minus symbol is showing that those are the included apps by default but if you press the minus symbol it takes them away. They Aren’t always turned on but are always available to use through control centre, unless you change it.