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Control Center and Lock Screen Controls for iOS 18: A Roundup of My Favorite Indie Apps
- iOS and iPadOS 18 has introduced the ability to fully customize Control Center along with supporting controls of third-party applications.
- Users can map third-party controls to the Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and they can replace the two default controls at the bottom of Lock Screen.
- Obscura, a popular camera app, now allows its control to replace the default Camera launcher. This has greatly impacted users’ photo-taking habits.
- Chronicling, an everything tracker app, can now add its custom categories to Control Center, which can be accessed easily from anywhere in iOS, providing a huge usability improvement.
- Longplay, a music player app, has added a Play Random Album control that quickly starts playing an album from a user's library in the background. This new control allows users to customize their app's control to filter the selection that the albums are picked from.
- Control Mark is an exciting option for adding a specific website in Control Center. This app lets you turn any URL into a custom control.
- Noir, one of the essential Safari extensions on all of Apple’s platforms, has a new control that lets you toggle the extension on and off from Control Center. For easier accessibility of this toggle, it can be opened from Control Center.
- Shareshot, an app for adding a device frame to screenshots, added Frame Last Screenshot control that immediately opens the app and frame your last saved screenshot for customization.
- Fantastical, Cardhop, and Remind Me Faster have respective new controls added to Control Center. Fantastical has a Create Event control and Cardhop has Add Contact, Scan Card, and Search controls. Remind Me Faster offers a new control for opening Remind Me Faster's task creation view.
- Third-party controls easily turn an app’s core functionality into a quick toggle that can be accessed from anywhere on iOS. The question arises that how long until these controls can be added to the Home Screen for a more modular setup.
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