iOS 11 includes a good handful of new features for both iPhone and iPad, and although some of the most important functions are exclusively for the Apple tablet, the iPhone version also changes considerably in critical functions such as the Control Center, that screen of shortcuts that for so many years was the star of the Jailbreak and Cydia.
The screen of shortcuts to functions such as WiFi, Bluetooth, music player, brightness, volume, etc. It changes radically with respect to iOS 10, and not only in aesthetics. New shortcuts and even the ability to customize some of the buttons placing those that we consider most important. We show you in great detail what the new iOS 11 Control Center looks like and how it works, including an explanatory video.
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More options and full screen
The new Control Center continues to appear in the same way as in iOS 10, sliding from the bottom of the screen. You can display it from the lock screen, from the applications and from the main screen of your iPhone or iPad, but Unlike what happened with iOS 10, in iOS 11 it will occupy the entire screen of your device. Also there are no pages, now all controls are on the same page, you will not have to slide to see the playback controls or to access HomeKit compatible devices.
At a glance you can access all the shortcuts, which is much more comfortable than having different pages, as with iOS 10. For example, I never used access to HomeKit from the control center, basically because I never remembered it was there, swiping to the right. I prefer to have all the options visible to know what I can and cannot do.
The 3D Touch continues to expand functions
Little by little Apple is increasing the possibilities of 3D Touch, logical because there are more and more devices that include this function that debuted almost two years ago with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The information offered by the control center is a lot on its main screen, but if we 3D Touch (press harder) on some elements the functions increaseEither allowing finer controls or offering us more information. This is the case with WiFi, Bluetooth controls ... etc. If we press hard on that section we can see the network to which we are connected and other buttons such as AirDrop or Internet Sharing, which do not appear on the initial screen.
This is precisely where we miss that Apple has gone a bit further and allowed us to reorder the buttons. The button to activate or deactivate the data is useless to me, because I never deactivate it (I know that many of you have seen the open sky with this new button), and I would have liked to be able to change that shortcut to Share Internet or even AirDrop.
Adjusting the brightness and volume finer than with the main screen control, or accessing the expanded controls of the music player are other options that 3D Touch allows us, but there are buttons such as Do Not Disturb or the one with the rotation lock that does nothing when pressed harder. In the video you can see all the possible functions. And to Those of you who do not have 3D Touch on your device, the same is achieved by holding down about the area you want to enlarge.
Customization options
It's something we've been asking for for a long time, and it's finally here, albeit only in part. The Control Center has two well differentiated parts, a main one that occupies the upper 2/3, and another with 8 shortcuts that occupies the lower 1/3. The latter is precisely the part that Apple allows you to customize by adding those accesses you want, and removing those that do not interest you. From the System Settings, within the Control Center you can customize the controls, very easily. Eliminate, add and rearrange are the possibilities that are offered to us, which is not little.
You cannot add shortcuts that do not appear in that list, and of course you cannot add accesses from third-party applications, because Apple only includes theirs. Nor can you customize anything that occupies the top 2/3 of the Control CenterThat is why I said before that Apple could have gone a little further, but we already know that it is not a company very prone to radical changes or to give the user much control.
Some of the new buttons that we can place in the Control Center deserve special mention, such as screen recording, which finally allows you to create a video and share it even with your voice, the battery saver button that will help you take extra time from your battery, or the new Do not disturb mode while driving, which can save you more than one scare by not distracting you from what is really important, the road.
On the iPad, combined with multitasking
Apple has also wanted to give its special touch to the version for the iPad, and as a full screen with shortcut buttons on a screen of more than 9 inches would have been something strange, has decided to combine the Control Center with Multitasking. So when you display the Control Center you will also see which applications are in the background.
You will have to perform the same gesture to activate the WiFi as to completely close an application that has remained in the background. By the way, the AirDrop button appears in the screenshot of the iPad instead of the data activation button because it is a WiFi-only iPad. As the iPad does not have 3D Touch, as we told you before to expand the functions of some buttons you have to hold down on them. The customization options that Apple offers in the Control Center of the iPad and the iPhone are exactly the same.
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