It's such a crap workaround that I didn't want to suggest it out of fear of sounding like I'm trolling but I just find it a bit easier to glance at my wrist than I do the phone. Even more so now!
lol, it's all good. For most it probably is a pretty crap work around, but luckily I do still have my first gen watch, so will give it a go. It feels so much like so many of the iOS11 decisions have been influenced by the X, and this year whoever is in charge of the design team managed to have say over whoever is in charge of the HCI or ergonomics and functionality dept. They're hiding away so much info behind unecessary swipes and gestures.
I'd be happy to have all the old status bar info that is only visible now from control center, to be visible permanently on the bottom of my lock screen so it doesn't clash with the notch. Anywhere really.
I miss having at a glance (using the nice new tap to wake on the screen):
The battery percentage so I know exactly how much juice I have left. The battery icon is too clucky to accurately see how much juice I have.
The moon for do not disturb - So I know at a glance if it's on or not when in quiet environments and as a reminder for me to switch it off when I check my lock screen after I leave a quiet environment
The VPN icon so I know if my ad blocker is active or not
The location icon so I can tell if there's an app using my location while not in use.
I really don't get why they got rid of the cards for the control center. On the one hand I suppose it's nice having everything on one screen, but it's also really busy when you have them all activated. As none have text labels I'm often having to try and think about and decipher what an icon means before tapping it, especially if it's something I don't use often. Having the cards swipeable on the bottom half of the screen meant you could access every single control center item in one handed mode and have them categorised onto relevant cards to group them. Now to pause the audio on your music or podcast while in another app, or adjust the brightness, both things that I do regularly on a daily basis, requires a second hand. Quite fiddly when on the move.
I do like how we now have the time visible in every app.
What I would like to see is the ability to swipe up to access control center from the far bottom left or bottom right of the screen. The home bar can take the middle 50%, and the left and right 25% could be used for control center. The screen is plenty wide enough.
Then add reachability to the control center. Then maybe the ability order everything in the control center. Only the bottom half is user orderable, but we're forced to have wireless controls, media controls, brightness, volume, do not disturb, lock orientation and screen mirroring stuck to the top, which is a shame.
An another note, it looks like Apple are bumping wireless charging from
5W up to 7.5W in 11.2