Q: Accessibility features for control center

Aha! Resize the lens! I have been using the zoom lens since you suggested it earlier, but although I looked for a way to resize the lens I failed to discover it.

I must admit that I am often surprised when I learn of some new semi-secret bit of iOS functionality. Multi-finger gestures are another area. I always seem to find out about these in forums and site posts, and have not found an actual official reference to them.

(BTW, in your screen shot photo, don't you agree that the white text is less readable than the dark text? Perhaps the photo fuzziness duplicates my over-40 eyesight. This design choice struck me as something for Apple to reconsider in a future update.)

Thanks much for helping me find some workarounds.

Thanks, yes, I do have the ambient light detector on, but nothing helps much when the sun is shining. This often happens to me when playing outdoors. Then, even at maximum contrast/brightness, the white on gray text is still basically invisible. There's nothing Apple can do about the sun (and the iPad Pro is infinitely more readable than my old iPad 1, for example), but offering higher-contrast text would be a big help. Many customers, even those under 20, use their devices outdoors, so I'd think this would help the entire user base.

Thanks again for your input. I agree that vendors can't anticipate every edge case and corner case, and I agree that the particular use case I gave above is uncommon. However, I disagree that the general problem of low-contrast text is uncommon. Anecdotally, I often hear people complaining about this issue; and functionally, it just makes sense that a device intended for use in a wide range of lighting environments, by people with a wide range of visual capabilities, should consider the need for high-contrast display.

I have submitted feedback, thanks for that reminder. I also presume that discussions like these are seen by Apple product people, and are considered in planning. Perhaps.

Regarding sheet music apps, I own pretty much all of them. However, note that my issue isn't with a particular app, but rather with the control center's (very useful) multitasking capability. Control Center lets me coordinate two apps.

If I could control audio playback in the multitasking panel on the right of the screen, this would be a nonissue. Instead of using the control center, I could simply display and control the audio player on the right side. But for some reason, audio playback only seems to appear in the control center, and its interface is intentionally tiny -- using smaller features than the main app. That was an arbitrary choice, and is often an appropriate one. But suppose the control center were just a bit larger, or had a "supersize" option -- taking just a little more real estate away from the main app. Then its text and controls could be promoted to full-size, and my problem would vanish.

Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Display zoom was the first thing I tried, but the result isn't useful for me, though it would be for someone with more significant reading challenges. But the Pro's basic layout and sizes are already good for me, using the standard interface. I can't give up all that extra text -- that's the reason I have the iPad Pro! It's just that the Control Center is scaled to much smaller than most of the rest of the interface experience. That is exactly what I was whinging about. If I can remember the three-finger gestures (so far I keep forgetting that it's a 3-double-tap to turn on/off the zoom) this will help with my immediate problem. I do wish I could shrink the zoom lens a little smaller (why on earth stop at 3/4"? why not let me view a single line?) but it is workable, although it does require extra tapping, which is awkward on stage. Thanks again.

Egad, I marked your response about zoom lens as solving the problem, but today as I have tried to learn more about multifinger gestures I now see that there is a much easier way to deal with this situation.

Although I cannot get my player to appear in the list of slide-over apps, all I need to do is activate the two apps successively, and then four-finger swipe between them. That is much quicker than fiddling with the zoom. I still like the control center concept, but as long as I'm just alternating between two apps this other approach is much simpler.

Isn't there some cheat sheet on the iPad that summarizes all these gestures? Now that I'm doing it this way, I do recall finding this feature six months ago, but apparently I promptly forgot it since I didn't need it at the time.

Hilarious! Thank you. I have been looking for something like this, but obviously in the wrong places. The App Store has a bazillian so-called user guides, free and non-free, but this one is clearly the one I want.

Now the iPad 1 I knew pretty well. That's partly why I haven't kept up with new features. I got used to a particular mode of operating, and have mostly only learned new things through osmosis -- when a feature jumped up and grabbed me. I'm embarrassed to admit that I kind of missed the whole trend of multi-finger gestures.