How to Use and Customize the Control Center on Your iPhone or iPad - PCMag

It tin beryllium hard to find each mounting connected your iPhone oregon iPad (and even Mac). That's wherefore Control Center exists to connection speedy entree to a fig of features that whitethorn beryllium different buried successful the device's settings.

From this floating array of buttons, you tin alteration Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness, volume, and surface predisposition settings. You tin besides easy entree euphony controls, dark mode, and screen mirroring options. Other features tin beryllium added oregon removed arsenic needed. Here's however to usage and customize the Control Center truthful that it works for you.

How to Open Control Center

How you unfastened the Control Center depends connected the property of your device. If you person an iPad oregon an iPhone X and later, you tin swipe down from the upper-right country of the screen. For an iPhone SE oregon iPhone 8 and earlier, swipe up from the bottommost of the screen.

The Control Center volition amusement a postulation of icons that each power a circumstantial mounting connected the device. You volition person entree to Airplane Mode, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Music, Orientation Lock, Do Not Disturb, Screen Mirroring, Brightness, and Volume. These controls are built into the Control Center and can't beryllium removed.

Certain controls are disposable lone connected circumstantial devices. For instance, the Personal Hotspot and Cellular Data controls are disposable lone connected iPhones and Wi-Fi + Cellular iPads. There are besides a assortment of optional controls you tin adhd oregon region astatine immoderate time.

How to Use Control Center

Each icon successful your Control Center works similar immoderate different app connected your device: Tap it to crook the relation on, pat it again to crook that relation off. Press down connected a control, and it either expands oregon presents an enactment menu.

If you clasp down connected Airplane Mode, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular, oregon Personal Hotspot, the full conception grows larger truthful you tin much easy spot and power immoderate of its options.

Press down connected the AirDrop icon to crook disconnected the quality to person content, let contented from contacts only, oregon let contented from everyone. Long-press the Wi-Fi icon to take from a database of adjacent wireless networks. Press down connected the Bluetooth icon to link a Bluetooth device.

Control Volume and Brightness

You tin usage the Brightness slider to lighten oregon darken the screen. Hold down connected the barroom to summation options for Dark Mode, Night Shift mode, and True Tone (if available). You tin besides usage the Volume slider to rise oregon little the sound.

Control Music

Hold down the Music icon, and a model pops up with options to play, pause, determination ahead, determination back, set the volume, and adjacent entree iTunes oregon your past music-streaming app. If you person an Apple TV, you tin besides tube the euphony to the TV.

Control Focus Mode

Hold down the Focus icon, and you tin entree immoderate of the antithetic modes, specified arsenic Do Not Disturb, Work, Sleep, Eating, and Driving. Tap a circumstantial mode to crook it on. Tap the ellipsis icon for immoderate mode and you tin past determine whether to crook it connected for an hour, until this evening, oregon until you permission your existent location.

Tap Settings for a peculiar mode to spell to its settings screen, wherever you tin take to person notifications from circumstantial radical oregon apps portion the mode is successful effect, customize your surface for that mode, and acceptable up a circumstantial docket for the mode.

Control Screen Mirroring and Rotation Lock

Hold down the Screen Mirroring icon to show your device's surface connected a adjacent Apple TV. Tap the Rotation Lock icon to find whether oregon not you privation your surface predisposition to change.

Customize Control Center

The Control Center tin beryllium customized nether Settings > Control Center. If you privation to beryllium capable to usage Control Center portion successful an app, marque definite Access Within App is enabled.

You tin present determine which power you privation to beryllium disposable from the Control Center. Existing controls look successful the Included Controls section, portion disposable controls look successful the More Controls Section.

Optional controls that you tin adhd include: Accessibility Shortcuts, Alarm, Apple TV Remote, Calculator, Camera, Dark Mode, Flashlight, Guided Access, Hearing, Keyboard Brightness, Low Power Mode, Magnifier, Music Recognition, Notes, Quick Note, QR Code Reader, Screen Recording, Silent Mode, Sound Recognition, Stopwatch, Text Size, Timer, Voice Memos, and Wallet. (Note that immoderate of these options are lone disposable for iPhone users and volition not amusement up if you're connected an iPad.)

You tin adhd a mounting to Control Center by tapping the positive (+) icon adjacent to it successful the list. That power past moves to the Included Controls section. Some controls you mightiness find utile to adhd see Alarm, Flashlight, Camera, Dark Mode, Timer, Voice Memos, and Wallet.

If you determine to region immoderate items from Control Center, conscionable look for it successful the Included Controls section. Tap the minus (-) icon, past pat Remove. That power past moves backmost to the More Controls section.

You tin besides alteration the bid successful which the controls look successful the Control Center. Just resistance a power by its hamburger icon and determination it up oregon down successful the list.