Reminder: Apple includes a tiny AirPlay toggle in iOS 11's Control Center for iPhone and i...
Apple, in its "infinite wisdom," compacted the Control Center in iOS 11, and gave AirPlay even less of a starring role on it. With HomePod now available and able to have audio streamed via AirPlay, AppleInsider shows you where the AirPlay button is, and two slightly different ways to turn it on.
It's all still there, it's just not as obvious how to AirPlay content from your device as it used to be. From the Control Center, give it either a firm press on your 3D Touch-enabled phone, or a long-press on an iPad to select output options. That will allow you to toggle AirPlay as an output.
If you want to go straight to AirPlay from the Control Center, precisely tap on the icon that looks like half a Wi-Fi logo to bring up the customary controls.
If you're looking to stream content to Apple's newly released HomePod from your iPhone or iPad, you'll do it through AirPlay, as the smart speaker does not support streaming audio over Bluetooth.
It's all still there, it's just not as obvious how to AirPlay content from your device as it used to be. From the Control Center, give it either a firm press on your 3D Touch-enabled phone, or a long-press on an iPad to select output options. That will allow you to toggle AirPlay as an output.
If you want to go straight to AirPlay from the Control Center, precisely tap on the icon that looks like half a Wi-Fi logo to bring up the customary controls.
If you're looking to stream content to Apple's newly released HomePod from your iPhone or iPad, you'll do it through AirPlay, as the smart speaker does not support streaming audio over Bluetooth.
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But personally I like this better since it needs 2 clicks while in iOS 10 it needed 3.
Plus its more customisable.
Whatever happened to ease of use?
Personally, I reckon this is another example of designers having too much power over engineers. Apple used to be famous for having the balance at the intersection of design and engineering more right than any other competitor. This has become quite muddied in recent times.
With that in mind, I tried long-press on all of the buttons in Control Center. How about that! (And where have I been all this time?)
I knew enough to customize Control Center to put in a few other things that I wanted to access quickly (like AppleTV)--now Control Center is even more useful to me.
i have been frustrated trying to find airplay, airdrop and the hotspot in th call centre, and this has shown me how!
I think Cynflor is actually in furious agreement, but misunderstood my meaning. If the access isn’t easy, people won’t use it. If they don’t discover it, even more so. And no, the designers and the engineers are not the same people, but should work together to make something better than on their own. Too much engineering power gives you Old HP. Too much designer power gives you MacBooks with one port or an iOS GUI that makes it non trivial to discover functionality.
Afer a notification appears on the Home Screen, the Play button could be activated inside my pocket. And I have to take it out to stop it. Really, really bad!!!