{"id":13387,"date":"2016-01-30T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2016-02-02T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T18:43:21","slug":"in-praise-of-control-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/in-praise-of-control-center\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Control Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/01\/30\/control-center\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/01\/30\/control-center\">\n<p>Control Center is probably my single favorite system-level UI change to iOS ever. I kind of wish you could change the apps hard-coded at the bottom (I&rsquo;d replace Calculator with PCalc, for example), but I use it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>I think Notification Center and Today view could still use some improvement. But cramming Control Center into the same pull-down sheet would make things worse, not better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2016-02-02): <a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/01\/control-center\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2016\/01\/control-center\/\">\n<p>I like the limitation of having just a few available slots, but being able to replace the &ldquo;dead&rdquo; spots with buttons I&rsquo;d actually use would be a big improvement.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And the design inconsistency I mentioned earlier? The buttons on the top do a single thing and they do it immediately&mdash;they do not launch apps. The buttons on the bottom <em>do<\/em> launch apps, which is why the have the rounded rectangle shape of app icons. The exception, the inconsistency, is the Flashlight button. It belongs on the top. I can only assume that Apple put it where it is because they wanted six &ldquo;do it now&rdquo; buttons but had room to fit only five comfortably. It&rsquo;s a minor inconsistency, but it wouldn&rsquo;t be necessary if we could customize our button layouts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: Control Center is probably my single favorite system-level UI change to iOS ever. I kind of wish you could change the apps hard-coded at the bottom (I&rsquo;d replace Calculator with PCalc, for example), but I use it all the time. I think Notification Center and Today view could still use some improvement. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1342,31,1137,111],"class_list":["post-13387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-flashlight","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-notificationcenter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}