The release of iOS 18 introduces a new era of customization for the iPhone Control Center, offering unprecedented flexibility and third-party app integration. With the ability to add widgets and ...

Last fall, iOS 18 brought a powerful new feature: the ability to fully customize your Control Center setup. This change came packed with a ton of new controls to choose from. But ever since then, ...

The iPhone's Settings app is usually the place to go when you need to make changes to how your phone behaves. Or maybe you need to access your iCloud settings, or tweak the Camera app, or the way the ...

Apple has introduced a significant enhancement with the release of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the integration of ambient music directly into the Control Center. This feature is designed to complement ...

Control Center has gotten so much better over the past year, with a fully customizable toolset that’s always expanding. And my most-used Control Center feature, Background Sounds, will get even better ...

Following last week’s homescreen redesign, the Google Gemini app on iPhone has been updated with lockscreen widgets and direct access in Control Center. The Gemini iPhone app now offers six circular ...

Beyond Liquid Glass, Apple is making giant updates to Control Center in iOS 26 that make this always handy iPhone feature become a powerhouse — once you learn how to use it to its fullest. For example ...

The upcoming iOS 18.4 update for the iPhone adds an Ambient Music feature to Control Center. Below, we take a closer look at how it works. iOS 18.4 is currently in beta, so the Ambient Music feature ...

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