Customize and use Control Center on Apple Watch

Access your favorite features faster with Control Center

- CARRIE MARSHALL

ONE OF THE most useful things on your Apple Watch may be hiding in plain sight. That's because Apple moved the Control Center when it launched watchOS 10, so it's easy to forget it's there: the upwards swipe that used to open Control Center now brings up your widgets instead, and Control Center now requires you to press the side button.

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While the Control Center has been relocated from watch face to watch button, it's still very useful, and while of course it's a lot simpler than Control Center on your iPhone or iPad it does the same job; it gives you fast access to commonly used features and settings. It can also help you find your iPhone if you've misplaced it. In this tutorial, we'll discover how to use Control Center, how to add more controls to it and how to reorganize it to suit your personal preference. We'll also discover how you can remove most of the icons if you don't need them. We say "most" because Apple has decided that some icons need to remain in ft Control Center whether you want them or not. You can't delete them, but you can move them so they're tucked away out of sight. We'll also discover one of the best things about Control Center: the extra features you can access by long-pressing the icons.

In these pages, we'll be looking at the Control Center in watchOS 10 but versions 8 onwards are very similar.

HOW TO Organize Control Center on Apple Watch

1 Open it up