iPhone X: How to Access Control Center

iPhone X Control Center gesture: swipe down from the right horn
Swipe down from the iPhone X's right horn for Control Center

Taking away the Home button on the iPhone X turned gestures into a kind of digital duck-duck-goose game. What used to be the Control Center gesture is now how you get to the Home screen, which means the Control Center gesture had to move.

iPhone X Control Center gesture: swipe down from the right horn
Swipe down from the iPhone X’s right horn for Control Center

To see Control Center swipe down from the display’s right horn. The iPhone X has a black area, or notch, at the top of the screen where the front-facing cameras and sensors live. There’s a little bit of screen on either side of the notch. Those are the horns.

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The left horn shows the time, and the right horn shows signal strength and battery.

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