Force touch in Control Center in iOS 10

I’ve been using iOS 10 since WWDC and have now updated all my devices to iOS 10 beta 2. My experience with this beta has been solid and marked by little pockets of discovery.

One of those discoveries, here since beta one, I believe, is the addition of Force Touch to Control Center. As an example, here’s a screen shot showing what happens when you press with force touch on Control Center’s Flashlight icon:

iOS_Flashlight

Before Force Touch, the Flashlight defaulted to the bright light setting. The medium and low settings are uniformly dimmer, welcome options when it’s dark and I only need a bit of light or want to minimize intrusiveness. Note that your last selection sticks. So if you choose “Low light” in the Force Touch menu, you’ll get low light the next time you tap the Flashlight icon.

The other apps at the bottom of Control Center also have their own Force Touch menus. Timer has a set of canned timers you can launch, Calculator has a “Copy Last Result” item (thought this copied the last result from the Calculator to the pasteboard, doesn’t seem to work for me), and Camera lets you launch the Camera app in four different modes.

I’d love the ability to add my own apps to Control Center and to customize the menus. For example, I frequently use a 2 minute timer, would love to be able to add one to the menu.

All that said, a great addition to Control Center. Force Touch everything!

[H/T Gary from Bouncing Ball Games]