Inside iOS 26 Control Center – Quick access to the best features of iPhone

In addition to Apple Liquid Glass, it makes a giant iOS 26 Control Center, which makes this practical iPhone function to become a powerhouse – once you learn how to use Fulost.

For example, now you will automatically get several pages of controls, and you can add more and Apple provides Hundres with your own iPhone controls that you can use. However, the control center may include opportunities from third -party developers, and in iOS 26, all Thessse controls have been found and much easier.

Visual change

The Control Center has changed as you get to it – and the fact that there are probably iPhone users who have never intentionally open it. If you want to get to the control center, you have to cross your finger down from the upper right corner of the iPhone screen and run it from the bottom to get rid of it.

Ounce, but you are in it, then there have been three very significant visual changes:

  • More pages
  • Off
  • Liquid glass

The smallest of them and sometimes the best is the switch. Instatead you need to know that you turn off by pressing and holding a sleep/wake up button long enough or browsing Settings find Turn offNow click and hold off.

Note the line of the page icon on the right side of the control center

You will not need it often, but when you do it, it means that the phone is switched off and one click – follows the next run to confirm that you want to do it.

This off button is in the upper right corner of the Control Center screen and stays there when you cross to quite new extra pages. You want to go through these pages, Instatead of Promissing Control Center, you have to go from anywhere, except the bottom of the screen.

The last thing to note about the OFF button is that it can be small, but it’s very clear. Initially, during the first Betas iOS 26 and iPados 26, you couldn’t say it about every other control center icon, because liquid glass is all transparent.

They are still, but now it’s more like matt glass. Opinions differ from liquid glass, but here on the iPhone and iPad it is a design that causes the controls to excel and find it easy.

Which is crucial because there are very, many of them need to be found. But this is a key advantage of the control center today, so there are now more pages.

How multiple pages work

By default, when you cross down for the Control Center, you will get a version of the well -known page that the iPhone and iPad have for Mary for years. But you can continue to move this movement, literally continue and move to another page.

Now that you have used any page in the control center you can go up and down to get the rest. Likewise, if you know you like what’s on the fourth page, you can click the icons hidden on the right side of the screen and go straight to where you want.

This set of icons is very easy, but once you know they are, they are also very useful. The oven icons begin and represent each of the starting pages of the oven:

  • Favorite
  • Music
  • Home
  • Settings

It is possible to add more pages – it is now very easy to add them unintentionally – and if you do, the list of icons is growing. Where this original oven gets identifiable icons such as music note, the new pages get a big dot.

But it’s the same idea that you can only tap the dot and go to this page. And the list of icons shows the pages in order.

However, you do not have to use any of this site. This is true that you never have to look at them if you don’t want it.

But it is also in the sense that it will never have to if you move all the controls you like on the front. It takes a few steps, but it’s easy to experience with the addition of controls to find out that you really want.

And let’s tell you right now, you can get into confusion. For example, the control center will not stop adding the same check again and again.

But if you need, you can open up Settings On your iPhone go to Control center. Ounce there, tap on Reset control center Go back to Apple’s default values and start again.

Reading while adding controls

These Apple default values are sensitive and known. These are controls that most people may want time – and are what has always been in the control center.

So they range from volume and brightness, aircraft modes and focus regimes. It is a good set and it is not as if it was urgent or need to change it – but you can.

Three smartphones show different control center interfaces with options such as Wi-Fi, brightness, volume and other settings.
LR control center, adding controls, selection of controls

It’s just curious how you start to change or add. You have a choice and it won’t change at all as you can:

  • Click + left at the top
  • Press and hold any empty space

Arguabury printing and holding are better because if you go to click the most signs, it is easy to reject the white control center.

However, any method you are using will continue to add all the controls on all pages to the left corners of the upper corner of the minus. They also administer the edge of EITH each individual control or groups of them.

In addition, a button will now be marked Add the control element.

Before you do it, you may want to clean some space or just get rid of controls you know you will never use. You do not need – the default set of Apple Leaves for several other controls – but it’s simple enough to get rid of undesirable.

Maybe too. When the minus mark is displayed, click it and the control disappears – without further warning.

Nothing is actually deleted forever, but depending on the control can get their back search. Like it can add any new check.

Searching and selecting controls

Once you tap Add the control elementYou are transferred to a new and shifting screen. It is a potentially very long transition to the bottom, because this screen contains all Apple offers plus from third -party developers.

It is worth a look through the list because it is divided into seeds, where potentially useful controls are together in categories. By default, the following categories are:

  • General (unmarked part above)
  • Accessibility
  • Surrounding music
  • Apple Intelligence & Siri
  • Capture (camera, QR code scanner, etc.)
  • Clock
  • Connection
  • The display and brightness
  • Concentrate
  • Home
  • Meson
  • Comment
  • Now plays
  • Reminder
  • Distant
  • Abbreviations
  • Sounds
  • Translate
  • Voice notes
  • Wallet
  • Watch
  • Availability (curiously, second)
  • Hearing availability
  • The availability of the engine
  • Availability vision

If you seem to be like a long list, you actually have to follow. Apple applications that have previously followed Apple’s recommendations will be included in the list of possible controls.

Nice, the third parties are dispersed in the whole list, which shows them mainly alphabetically. So Apple got its own checks of any preference, the white list is the same.

This included where the category included one or many controls.

There are some of the deputies such as two accessibility categories. The first includes only iOS recognition control, while the second contains the more familiar ones, such as a reader of availability and guide access.

To select any control from any category, click it, and this control is immediately placed in your control center on any page you were on when you press Add the control element.

During the beta test there was an odd hiccup, where the control seemed not to register the tap. But in general, it is one click and the control is installed.

It would be great if it was possible to add a couple at once, or maybe all those in the category, but it is not possible at the moment. One control, one click, is done.

Interruption of controls

Although it is usually true that the control goes on any page you have been on how you have fled Add the control elementThere is an exception. When this page is already full, the control center adds a new page and inserts the selected control.

Four icons of applications with minus buttons above each, multiple tags below to add control.
Once you tapped the “Add Control”, each icon gets a button for deleting and grabbing

This can be very confusing, because at least during the beta test, it is sometimes possible that you want them to go to the page you started – and there would be no hint of new control.

But it would always be on the next page, always crossing down.

And you can always change the control position, move it to any screen – and also change its shape.

If you want to move the control, press and hold it, and then just drag. When you do this, the control center displays targets, areas where you can control controls, so you just drag one of them and let go.

However, this target you are dragging may not be empty. If you stretch where there is already a control, existing is somewhere else.

When you organized them as you want, click away from the controls and in an empty place on the screen and you’re done.

The exception is wider to have more control. Here are six options:

  • Small, round check
  • Horizontal control of double width
  • Horizontal control of triple width
  • Horizontal control of a quadruple width
  • Vertical control with double height
  • Double height control and width

Most controls can be changed to any of them. Some will limit you to selecting these options – and the volume and brightness controls cannot be reduced or grown.

Change any check that can be infested, bring up Add the control element Button. Then the controls have minus at the top left, they will also have a handle that would endtom right.

It may be grim and hold this handle for growth or reduce the control, rather than catch and move it.

However, you will get used to it quickly, and if you should maintain control of the control center, you would soon do it without a conscientious idea.

You just won’t get them. Initially you can behave, you can very well change the controls over time, because your needs differ, but the idea is that it is easy to set and forget it.

It may also be a mess, have more copies of the same control and definitely have more pages.

However, the new control center design and its appearance of liquid glass is excellent for the surface control you need. Set it up and the control center will be the powerhouse of your entire iPhone.

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