{"id":68480,"date":"2025-05-28T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=68480"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:25:05","slug":"apple-ios-control-centre-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/apple-ios-control-centre-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iOS Control Centre Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/control_centre.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Apple iOS Control Centre Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/control_centre.gif\" title=\"Apple iOS Control Centre Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple iOS Control Centre Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For many years now on any Apple iOS iPhone or iPad device we&#8217;d been around, we&#8217;d keep forgetting the relationship between a &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>top right swipe down (or bottom swipe up) gesture (as we talked about with <a title='Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial' href='#apgst'>Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial<\/a> too) &#8230; and the &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Control Centre &#8230; as the proper terminology for that useful &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>menu &#8230; that appears &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; of immeasurable use to us being the Torch icon.  Just great for rounding up errant Golden Retrievers picking 22:30 as the time to mosey down to the backyard and sniff the breezes!<\/p>\n<p>The Control Centre menu can look different in different circumstances, but off the home menu, it is at it&#8217;s most complete.  Of course we can not do all the things to do it justice, the way <a target=\"_blank\" title='iOS Control Centre' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/guide\/iphone\/iph59095ec58\/ios#:~:text=To%20open%20Control%20Center%2C%20do,Swipe%20up%20from%20the%20bottom.' rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> can &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title='What Control Centre can do' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/guide\/mac-help\/mchl50f94f8f\/mac#:~:text=Control%20Center%20on%20Mac%20gives,Wi%2DFi%2C%20or%20Focus.' rel=\"noopener\"><img src='\/\/help.apple.com\/assets\/67D1B1065D0706C4AD080C54\/67D1B10E5D0706C4AD080C79\/en_GB\/ca89cbda8cd50f66c08271fa3bffd559.png'><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And did you know, in Settings you can stop the swipe means by which you bring up the Control Centre menu?  Perhaps this is useful if you&#8217;re always finding yourself triggering it accidentally, somehow?! <\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=\"_blank\" href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/new-apple-ipad-gesture-settings-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">New Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial<\/a> ...<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='apgst'>Previous relevant <a target=\"_blank\" title='Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/apple-ipad-gesture-settings-tutorial\/' rel=\"noopener\">Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPad\/gestures.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPad\/gestures.gif\" title=\"Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple iPad Gesture Settings Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We do a lot of screenshotting here at RJM Programming, mainly on &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/apple.com' rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> macOS MacBook Airs and Pros &#8230; where control-command-shift-3 (after we were keen on Grab) has done us nicely for years now &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/apple.com' rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> iOS &#8230; via Home button &#8220;and another&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; we have a certain &#8220;muscle memory thing&#8221; going on about.  But when we presented <a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/bluetooth-ipad-keyboard-and-case-document-editing-tutorial\/' title='Bluetooth iPad Keyboard and Case Document Editing Tutorial' rel=\"noopener\">Bluetooth iPad Keyboard and Case Document Editing Tutorial<\/a> and had a stand habitating our iPad around here, perhaps there was interference to that &#8220;muscle memory&#8221; arrangement &#8230; poor Apple accessory peoples!  Anyway, it made us look around our iPad&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nSettings -&gt; General -&gt; Gestures<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; settings, and we were introduced to a whole new <font size=1>(what have I been missing)<\/font> wooooorrrrllllddd, as visiting Apple settings areas is apt to do.<\/p>\n<p>We use diagonal swipes all the time on iPhone and iPad for the Torch, but you can configure bottom diagonal swipes, either or both from the left or right, to equate to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Quick Note<\/li>\n<li>Screenshot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And so, that gets around our <i>button based screenshotting via muscle memory disappearance<\/i> issue to dissolve like molasses in hot water <font size=1>(ie. it will take a while to sink in, and will need practice)<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>Toggling through the apps open we&#8217;ve been handling, on &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPhone &#8230; via a swipe from the bottom and swivel &#8230; and with the &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>iPad &#8230; via a double tap of Home button &#8230; but &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and, didn&#8217;t you just know there&#8217;d be <strike>a small flat mountain in the desert<\/strike> &#8220;but&#8221; here?!   On our iPad &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nSettings -&gt; General -&gt; Gestures<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; place we had a &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFour &amp; Five Finger Swipe\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; &#8220;not on&#8221;, and we thought &#8220;far fetched&#8221;, but tried it toggling through the open apps, and we got a &#8220;now we&#8217;re sold&#8221; feeling trying it out!<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d66168' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d66168\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/gesture\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d66168' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d68480' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d68480\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/swipe\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d68480' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years now on any Apple iOS iPhone or iPad device we&#8217;d been around, we&#8217;d keep forgetting the relationship between a &#8230; top right swipe down (or bottom swipe up) gesture (as we talked about with Apple iPad Gesture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/apple-ios-control-centre-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,37],"tags":[91,249,3680,4387,485,2803,626,631,770,2256,1127,1229,5205,4409,3325,4410,1319],"class_list":["post-68480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-ios","category-tutorials","tag-apple","tag-configuration","tag-control-centre","tag-functionality","tag-gesture","tag-home","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-menu","tag-screen","tag-settings","tag-swipe","tag-swipe-down","tag-swipe-up","tag-toggle","tag-torch","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68487,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68480\/revisions\/68487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}