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1 +++ 2 title = "MacOS Control Center is Better" 3 date = 2020-10-07 4 [extra] 5 type = "post" 6 +++ 7 8 I've been using the macOS Big Sur Beta for a couple of months now. So 9 far it's pretty fantastic, and a surprisingly smooth experience over 10 all. One brand new feature in this update is the introduction of the 11 Control Center. A close relation of its iOS counterpart, they differ in 12 one key way: Control Center on macOS actually turns off services. 13 14 <!-- more --> 15 16 {{ gif(sources=["cc.webm", "cc.mp4"]) }} 17 18 Did you catch that? It's pretty subtle. When you try and turn off 19 Bluetooth or Wifi on iOS, they aren't actually turned off: they're just 20 temporarily disabled. The interface still broadcasts, it just doesn't 21 accept new connections. It's one of my biggest pet peeves, and I'm glad 22 Apple got it right with macOS. Now if they could just port it to iOS...