Apple Watch with many updates and changes in watchOS 10
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Control Center on Apple Watch – it is a powerful tool to customize and take full advantage of its core features. However, in watchOS 10 it has been updated and the ways you can get the most out of it have changed a bit.
Control Center has been around as long as the Apple Watch, but with watchOS 10, Apple changed the way you access it on the watch itself. Previously, you simply swiped up from the bottom — Now you press the flat button on the right side to access it.
Swiping from bottom to top now shows widgets. It's a bit of a learning curve for experienced Apple Watch users, but with practice, the side button becomes a natural progression.
Another much smaller change in watchOS 10 was the relocation of the “connected” icon — small green iPhone symbol — from the top left corner to the top center. This allows other icons to attach to it to quickly display the currently active Control Center items.
Accessing Control Center options
One thing, which you probably shouldn't do by holding down the Side button for too long when accessing Control Center. If you do this, the Medical ID, Compass Backtrack, and Emergency SOS options will appear.
If you did this by accident, just click the Cancel button in the upper left corner of the screen. You can also press the side button again to return to Control Center.
Double-tapping the side button still brings up Apple Pay and Apple Wallet as before. To close these options if you accidentally called them up, simply press the side button again.
Apart from these changes, the icons themselves in Control Center remain largely the same. If you're not sure what an icon does, pressing and holding that Control Center icon will open other options, if available.
For example, holding the alarm icon — which looks like a bell — offers to turn on (or turn off), turn on or turn off for one hour, turn on or turn off until the evening or morning. By holding down the Wi-Fi icon, you'll see all the available networks and which one you're connected to.
Customizing Control Center
Typically, most of the available Control Center icons are displayed by default. However, you can remove icons that you know you won't use, rearrange icons, and add new ones.
To do this, open Control Center and scroll to the very end of the list. At the bottom, click the Edit button.
Scroll up to see the “wiggling” icons and you'll see that some have a minus icon in the corner. This mimics the behavior of iPhone apps in edit mode, and you can press the red minus button to remove an icon from Control Center.
Similarly, you can press and hold the Control Center icon in edit mode to move it. Once it's where you want it, release it and then press the side button again to exit.
Remove, reorder, or add icons to Control Center
At the bottom of the list in Edit mode, you will also see any Central Icons control not currently installed. You can click and drag them if you want to add.
Two of the most Useful Control Center features
Only the first six icons will be visible when you enter Control Center, so move the ones you use most often to one of these six locations for easier access. To see the rest, scroll down using the digital crown.
One of the most useful icons in Control Center looks like a vibrating iPhone, which activates a sound on the paired iPhone to help you find it. In the latest version of Apple Watch Series 9, a screen will appear on the watch that tells you its location.
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Another icon you might want in the top six is the Theater Mode icon, which looks like two masks. Activating this feature before any event is an easy way to prevent unwanted lights or beeps and alerts on your watch.
In this mode, the screen will not activate even if you raise your wrist. Emergency Notification will still alert you with a near-silent haptic tone.
If you need to check the time or notification, simply tap the watch screen to display it. When the event is over, don't forget to turn off Theater Mode.
You should open Control Center if you haven't already — or not soon — and check all the icons and what they do. Chances are good that you'll find a few features that add features you need or didn't even know you needed.
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