Trying to swipe up Control Center in iOS 12 on your iPad, only to discover your Home Screen or App Switcher? If you can’t find it, you aren’t alone! iOS 12 changes the location of its signature Control Center to match the iPhone X’s design.
For folks that already use an iPhone X, this change to control center’s location is easy!
But for the rest of us, it takes just a bit of time to get used to the new gesture. Believe me; you’ll swipe up from the bottom for a few days before the new Control Center gesture becomes auto-pilot.
So let’s get to it!
Control Center in iOS 12
In iOS 12, we open Control Center using the same gesture as all those iPhone X folks!
To Open Control Center iOS 12
Swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen, where you see the current status of your device, including battery, WiFi, and network signal icon information
To Close Control Center iOS 12
There are a number of ways to close control center
Swipe up from the bottom
Tap the top of your screen
Press the Home button
Swipe up on the Home Gesture Bar (for devices without a Home Button)
Get access to the control center from any app!
Using an app and need to quickly change your screen’s brightness, mute your device, change screen orientation, or turn on Do Not Disturb? It’s still all done via your Control Center.
Accessing the control center while inside an app is also the same. Just swipe from the top right in any app– you don’t need to go to the Home screen first.
Then swipe back up or tap the screen to close it. Easy peasy!
Access Your Notifications!
Another change is how to get to your Notifications Center. In the past, you could swipe down from anywhere in the middle of your screen to open up the Notification Center, but with iOS 12 no more!
On iOS 12, swipe down from the top-left of the screen, just under the Date and Time, to go to your Notification Center.
The “New” Status Bar
In iOS 12, Apple redesigned the iPad status bar and now it mimics the status bar of the iPhone X.
Best of all, your device now shows you the date and time in the upper left side of the status bar. Like the iPhone X, the middle is left open (it’s where the notch is on iPhone X).
Your battery life icon, WiFi, and the mobile or cellular signal connection status icon now display on the right-hand side of the new iOS 12 status bar.
Another Great iOS 12 Feature Quiet Notifications Delivery
Are you getting tired and bothered by your iPhone or iPad beeping at every new incoming message or app notification? If so, you’re not alone.
Quite a few Apple users let the company know that they wanted a feature to quiet down all those beeps and sounds. And Apple listened.
With iOS 12, Apple introduces a long-overdue Deliver Quietly feature, which mutes selected notifications sounds and prevents banners from popping up on-screen. These notifications still show up in your Notification Center, allowing you more control over what you want to see and hear.
How-To Turn On Quiet Notifications
Find a notification that you want to quiet alerts for on your Lock screen or open your Notification Center
Swipe from right to left on that particular notification until you see Manage
Tap Deliver Quietly
Repeat for other notifications you’d like to silence
Quiet Notifications are App Universal!
Be mindful that when you silence a notification, it quiets all notifications from that specific app.
So for example, if you silence notifications from Jerry in Messages, it then delivers all your Messages and texts quietly–including ones from Jerry and anyone else!
How To Turn Off Quiet Notifications
Surprise, surprise that turning off quiet notifications is not as simple as turning it on!
If you decide that you don’t want to universally quiet all the app’s notifications, follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Notifications
Select the App you wish to unquiet notifications for
Tap and checkmark Lock Screen and/or Banners to turn these back on
Select a Banner Style
Toggle on Badges if it’s off
Select a Sound from Sounds if you want to hear your notification
Choose any other notification options you want (show previews, notification grouping, and repeat alerts)
iOS 12 Control Center Crashing With 3D Touch?
Several users discovered that when using 3D Touch with their control center, it ends up crashing. If you experience this issue after updating to iOS 12, fix the issue by making a quick change in your settings.
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I agree, the new status bar is much worse. I want the info I want, where I want it – not to be told it’s now in a better place. I was happy where my info was before, I’m not now 🙁 Please, please let users decide what info they need & where they want it on the status bar. I wish I hadn’t updated to ios12 now 🙁
Can’t swipe up fronmfrom the bottom to access control Centre
NOT COOL!!!!!!
Now what???
Um, why isn’t the status bar user- manageable? I want info where I want it, not where you’ve put it!
I agree, the new status bar is much worse. I want the info I want, where I want it – not to be told it’s now in a better place. I was happy where my info was before, I’m not now 🙁 Please, please let users decide what info they need & where they want it on the status bar. I wish I hadn’t updated to ios12 now 🙁
Cool, you made it worse
Thank you. Damn Apple. Swipe from upper right now.