Ever since I switched back to Android after a couple years of using an iPhone SE, i have been missing the iOS feature to open “control center” (iOS term for quick shortcuts) using a swipe up gesture from the bottom of the screen.

This is a great feature that eliminates the need to reach for the top of the screen to pull down the notification shade to access toggles for commonn settings (wifi, cellular, BT, hotspot, torch, etc.). Since we live in an era of huge phones such a feature would have been extremely convenient. Unfortunately it’s not implemented in Android.

But I accidentally stumbled upon an app called Neo Launcher that has implemented a similar functionality (kind of, since iPhone control center can be summoned no matter what app you’re using, but this only works on home screen).

A dashboard pops up from the bottom of screen, where your thumb can easily reach, with a user-defined shortcut! Toggling wifi and other settings are much easier this way.

I’d highly recommend everyone to give this a try. Personally I’ve set double tap on screen as a shortcut for the dash.

  • Aussiemandeus English
    14•1 year ago

    that's my s21 from swiping down twice at the bottom of the screen, you can't tell me that's to far up

    That’s my S21 and can get there by swiping down twice anywhere on the screen.

    I don’t think that’s too far up at all

    • MusketeerXEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Try swiping once with two fingers

      • mckeanEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Fwiw you can get the same result using three fingers.

        • @rivalaryEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I’ve got such a dirty mind.

        • Aussiemandeus English
          1•1 year ago

          Doesn’t work for me, just wants to to then customise the home screen, probably a setting in my gesture control.

    • @cultsuperstarEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      There’s an option to swipe down with one finger from the “desktop” to pull down the shade too.