Add a specific control to the Control Centre on iPhone

I understand now.

If the control is not in the gallery then there's no way to add it to Control Center.

In the case of that specific toggle for Hearing Devices it does not appear to haver an associated control Center control that can be added.

You might be able to set up a Shortcut to get you there, and add it to the control Center.

Open the Shortcuts App, tap on the + icon to create a new shortcut, in the Search Actions search bar enter Open URLs and then tap it in the search results.

Tap on the light URL box and enter the following:

prefs:root=ACCESSIBILITY&path=HEARING_AID_TITLE (caps are important)

Tap on the blue checkmark to save. You may want to rename it to something easier to find by tapping at the very top and editing the name there. When you are done tap the < icon to exit the editor.

Then go to control center, and follow the steps to add a new control, search for Shortcuts, and tap on Shortcut, then on "Choose" and look for the shortcut you just created it should be there at the top.

Tap it to add it to the Control Center.

Then tap anywhere outside an icon to end the edit session. The next time you tap on the shortcut there it will take you straight to Hearing devices.

You may want to play around with the path to add the sub menus like "path=HEARING_AID_TITLE/AUDIO_ROUTING_TITLE/MEDIA_AUDIO_TITLE or similar; can't be sure what the actual path is since Apple does not document this and I don't own hearing aids to test the path with so I don't see the full path and can't get to it to see if it actually works. At worse it should at least shorten the amount of taps to get to the Media Audio controls.

Brian ~ As a possible workaround, does this control do what you want?... The "Now Playing" card on the Control Center which has an option for directing where playback will go.

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The error indicates you copied and pasted text with special formatting. i.e the bold text I used. Try as mentioned Textedit or just typing it yourself.

As to the Pref Roots and path, those are 2 parameters off the URL and both are required. prefs:root, prefs short for preference and root indicates in what part of the Settings app the url needs to begin, then path indicates where in that section of the Settings App the shortcut needs to take you. You need both parts.

The path is added by the forward slashes each sub menu title after a forward slash, this is all guess work as Apple ha son list of paths and its hard to determine what the actually called the location. I'm just guessing it's the section name plus the worked title, but I could be totally wrong.

As I said I can't test this because I don't have hearing aids so I don't see the specific location in Settings and Apple does not publish specific paths, so this is all trial and error to get the shortcut to open that section of the Settings App. It may or may not work either way.

Open control center, tap on the + icon at the top left corner of the screen, tap on "(+) Add a Control" at the bottom of the Control Center screen, look for the control you want to add and tap on it.

click here ➜ Use and customize Control Center on iPhone - Apple Support

'could not convert from Rich text to URL'

suggests you pasted that string in with its fancy formatting complete, and the software balked at that.

To strip a character string of its formatting, I paste the string into a TextEdit document.

Then convert the TextEdit document it is in to Plain text. (Select all, Format menu > make Plan text )

Then copy the string out of there for use elsewhere.