Control Panel:

Before we jump to the new additions, let’s take a look at the control panel. It has various sections consisting of the Audio Control Panel, Quick access shortcuts, Super Device, Smart Scene, and Smart Devices.

• Audio Control panel: This area allows you to manage audio playback, swipe audio apps, or manage connectivity.
• Shortcuts: You can enable or disable key features.
• Super Device: To connect and control tablets, laptops, smart TVs, and other devices for various cross-device features.
• Smart Scene: These allow you to implement and manage subscribed and created scenes.
• Smart devices: To manage devices paired in AI Life.

HarmonyOS 3:

HarmonyOS 3 comes with a number of new improvements to Super Device, which allow you to switch seamlessly to any connected device.

With HarmonyOS 3, the Super Device now supports more platforms than before. Project to a larger screen to edit phone files with a mouse and keyboard. Enable workout mode or switch watch faces with just a tap. Connect to a printer to print phone files and images, as well as access phone apps directly from your car’s onscreen.

To do so:

1. On this device, swipe down from the upper right edge to display the Control Panel.
2. In the Super Device Section, touch the search icon, enable Bluetooth and WLAN, and search for nearby devices.
3. In the Super Device section, touch the device icon.

You can now project your phone screen to a Huawei Vision and share photos from your Gallery, even when each device is logged into a different account.

Instructions:

1. In the top right corner, touch +
2. Select the device to be linked and follow the onscreen instructions on both devices to complete the linking process.
3. Drag the icon of the device you wish to link this device, to establish a connection.

Note: On the device to be linked, make sure that you’ve selected All nearby devices in Settings > Super Device > This device > Visible to.

Also, it’s required for you to log in with the same Huawei ID on connected devices.

Audio Sharing:

With HarmonyOS 3, the control panel will now allow you to share audio with two sets of earphones. You can skip tracks and switch listening devices, without missing a beat.

Instructions to use:

1. Swipe down from the top right corner to open Control Panel, and enable Bluetooth and WiFi.
2. Tap the icon in the top right corner of the playback control card.

Now you can share audio with two sets of earphones or adjust the volume for each listener.

1. Select a pair of Bluetooth earphones that supports audio sharing.
2. Tap the Share audio option and follow the on-screen instruction to connect another pair of Bluetooth devices.

In addition, you can access the audio control panel to manage nearby connected devices and share their audio.

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By creating a brand-new notification panel and control panel that is based on an in-depth study on user preferences and psychology. The interface has been split into two independent sections, which improves interactions and makes it easier to tell apart elements.

However, what do you think about a separate Notification panel and control panel in EMUI 12? What does new changes appear?

Before EMUI 12, the notification panel and control panel were initially integrated into a single panel. But after EMUI 12, when swiping down from the top of the screen reveals the notification panel and control panel but in a very different format.

The notification panel is accessed by swiping down from the left edge of the screen, while the control panel is accessed by swiping down from the right edge of the screen.

Why Huawei brought separate panels:

However, these revamp in the panel brought because Device+ and audio were added to control panels in EMUI 12. In addition to the existing shortcut switches.  And after adding this above-mentioned shortcut, it’s difficult to have notification messages, shortcut switches, and Device+ all displayed onscreen.

To access them alternatively, you may have to slide or scroll the screen. You would probably assume that the pull-down interface is fragmented and difficult given the complexity of those activities. Even locating a shortcut switch would be extremely difficult.

To read alerts or access the control panel, simply swipe down on the left or right sides of the screen, respectively, when the notification panel and control panel are split into two separate displays. Using Device+, it is simple to enable or modify shortcut switches to suit your needs.

Additionally, the audio control panel is also very helpful having to launch and close numerous audio applications. The ability to switch between apps and choose a playback device is greatly facilitated by shortcut switches.

Meanwhile, for all these reasons, I personally think it a good idea to have to separate panel. Since EMUI 12 places such a high value on user intuition, there is also the Device+ function, which makes it possible to collaborate seamlessly across devices.

But it’s all about my opinion, what about yours? How much do you like the idea of a separate EMUI 12 notification and control panel out of 10 on the scale? Just don’t forget to share reviews with us.

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Time to dive in.

EMUI 11: Quick Settings

EMUI 11 quick settings have the traditional quick access icons with a switch feature, which you can enable or disable with a tap. Other than that, you can also change the brightness level through the slider.

Furthermore, the notification panel is attached to the quick settings. Similar to the last version, the EMUI 11 also comes with various customization features to add/remove icons.

The panel has a soft background color that helps you differentiate between the icon and the background.

EMUI 12: Control Panel

EMUI 12 comes with a brand new Control Panel, which is a combination of various services in one place. The Control panel includes a media controller, and smart device manager that helps you connect and control devices such as tablets, FreeBuds, and Smartwatches.

That’s not it, Huawei has retained the quick settings icons from EMUI 11 and added them inside the control panel.

The EMUI 12 control panel has a better appearance with lots of new features. On the flip side, you can edit the switches or disable the smart device panel as per your preference.

We’ll soon bring you the next comparison, until then stay connected.

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As global users really want to know the differences between these two softwares. There we are going to put some light on this matter by showing you what it’s really about by putting EMUI 12 and HarmonyOS software side by side for the Control Panel feature.

What is Control Panel:

The Control panel in new Huawei devices takes the most common settings or options and put them on your phone’s home screen, allowing you to manage things in an easy way.

Let’s kick off our comparison from HarmonyOS 2.

HarmonyOS Control Panel includes four parts of the user interface – Media, Shortcut switches, Super device manager, and Smart Device controller.

The access to Control Panel is quite easy, you just need to open the Control Panel by swiping from the top right side of the display.

Talking about the sections, the media controls allow you to manage media audio playback on the device itself, switch audio apps, or switch playback to a connected audio device. The shortcut controls, enable, disable or set frequently use features on your fingertip.

The Super Device section lets you manage and control all of your connected smart HarmonyOS devices. Lastly, smart device control lets manage devices paired with the AI Life application.

The Control Panel lets you edit the switches, hide the super devices and edit devices for maximum usability.

EMUI 12:

When you look at EMUI 12, you’ll see a direct copy of the Control Panel Feature from HarmonyOS, as it features the same look. Meanwhile, there’s one change that you’ll see and that is the new Device+ panel instead of Super Device. While you can similar editing feature with the Control Panel in HarmonyOS.

As you can see, there isn’t much of a difference between the two software but you can surely give your own opinion on this matter.

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Control Panel:

EMUI 12 Control Panel has different sections that allow to enable or disable various features. Let’s take a look at them one after another.

1. Media controller
2. Connectivity Manager
3. Quick Settings
4. Device+

Media Controller:

This feature allows you to manage your current playback track and let’s change the source of output.

Connectivity Manager:

This lets you manage your smart connectivity options.

Quick settings:

This is the place, where you can check all of your current available options to tap and enable on the go. However, you can also reorder or delete the unused ones from the edit menu.

Lastly, There are connected smart devices and the smart device menu ready for your exploration and check for all of the connected models.

Currently, Huawei is expanding EMUI 12 for the flagship devices but there will be more devices that could soon join the EMUI 12 campaign.

So, the question is, do you like the new EMUI 12 Control Panel? Let us know via the poll linked below.

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For your information, the EMUI 12 has separated Control Panel and Notification Panel into two different features to improve their use cases.

Using Control Panel is easy, useful, and easy to navigate but there’s a lot to explore.

Let’s dive into this feature.

EMUI 12 Control Panel is identical to HarmonyOS’ Control Panel. Once enabled the feature will let you manage the following categories:

• Media and Connectivity Controller
• Quick Settings
• Device+

Time to explain:

Media and Connectivity Controller:

This part of the Control Panel will let you use media playback control such as prev, play/pause, and next. You can also switch selected media output devices. The music-related features will ease the access of such actions without opening the music app itself.

There are connectivity options that let you choose active/inactive WiFi and Bluetooth connections right from the Control Panel. You can also jump into settings by tapping and holding the features for details.

Quick Settings:

This control panel has rebranded the quick settings and fed into a simple place to reach out your finger for the right place. You just need to tap on a selected quick settings icon and tap again to disable it. Simple! isn’t it? Sure it is.

Interestingly, you can always rearrange these icons or add new ones from the available shortcut settings.

Device+:

It’s a feature that comprises all of your connected smart devices such as tablets, earbuds, and others. You can connect the know devices with one tap and disable them with the same interactions.

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The new swipe gestures allow users to switch back and forth between Control Panel and Notification Center. First, open the Control Panel and swipe left to switch to Notification Center and the same actions can be done from the other side.

Before the new gestures, the user had to open and close Control Panel or Notification Center individually. Therefore, you first have to close either of the screens to enter another.

This is surely a big relief for the HarmonyOS 2 smartphone owners that empowers great ease in terms of multi-tasking.

Below you can check the Video demonstration of the HarmonyOS Control Panel Swiple left and right gestures.

HarmonyOS 2 vs iOS 14:

If you are interested, then we recommend you check the comparison of HarmonyOS 2 vs iOS 14 Settings UI comparison. This will give you insights into the UI richness that comes with the HarmonyOS operating system compared to Apple’s iOS.

HarmonyOS 2:

HarmonyOS 2 is micro-kernel-based operating system and designed to work across different platforms. The latest version of HarmonyOS has already reached over 50 million smartphones and tablets in China.

Still, the number of users continues to rise and it’ll increase sharply when the OS will reach to the global market. Yet, an official announcement is awaited.

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This function lets users control different sets of devices from their smartwatch very conveniently. The Huawei Watch 3 IoT device control panel is one of the most important features of the HarmonyOS that allows interconnection of everything and unlocks the wisdom on your wrist.

The initial devices which support this functionality include smart switches, smart air conditioners, air purifiers, smart lighting, smart sockets, smart sockets, fans, sweeping robots, smart desk lamps, humidifiers, switch controllers, and earphones. In the upcoming updates, more smart device displays and control will be supported.

Edit IoT Device Control Panel

To enable the IoT device control panel setting on your Watch 3, select Settings >> More connections >> Multi-device Control Panel. Now, turn on the Smart Life Basic Services switch to allow the smartphone to sync account info with the watch.

You can also configure and change the settings of the Huawei Watch 3 IoT device control panel from the mobile phone and check the display status of the device through a widget. It can show up to six devices on the widget. In case there are more than 6 devices and you want to check more then:

• Click ‘Edit Smart Device‘ in the upper right corner to see the display of more devices.

To add a new device

• Press the device widget to drag and drop more devices.

To remove a device

• Navigate to ‘Edit Smart Device‘
• Click on ‘-‘ in the upper right corner of the device widget to remove it.

At last, the device widget on the watch side will synchronize the settings on the phone.

How to use IoT devices from the watch

The watch can control the operation of these smart devices, to do that, pull down from the top of the display to display the shortcut menu. Then pull down again to enter the IoT device control panel. You can now open and close any connected device from the device card display area.

You can do a lot more than just the simple operation and control of these smart devices. Additionally, you can also set detailed scenes such as conditions and tasks for each connected device in the Smart Life app according to their needs and the situation.

This IoT device control panel feature of the Huawei Watch 3 is completely worth it. It confirms the HarmonyOS concept of the Internet of Everything, truly making smart homes smarter with one-click control, and creating your own smart life.

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The latest Control Panel is a combination of different settings and provides simplicity over its predecessor in the EMUI 11. The control panel is an easy solution to manage media, audio, shortcut switches, and paired devices.

HarmonyOS is divided into four simple sections:

1. Media Controller
2. Shortcuts
3. Super Device
4. Smart Devices

Let’s take a look at these sections in detail, also you can check the full demonstration video of the HarmonyOS Control Panel linked below.

Media Playback Controls:

This section allows you to manage your media playback and connected audio devices. You can easily switch and transfer the playback between different supported audio devices.

Shortcut switches:

The shortcut switches allow you to enable or disable any given feature with just a tap. You can also restructure the entire shortcut switches according to your preference.

Super Device:

Super Device is complete a different feature, but its integration in the Control Panel is a blessing for the users. This feature allows you to access multi-screen collaboration between your phone and another device such as a tablet, laptop, or Huawei Vision smart TVs.

The super device is used for tasks such as projecting your phone screen content on other devices or resuming a task on a bigger display where you had previously left off.

Smart device controls:

The control panel integrates another useful quick access short to manage all of your connected Huawei devices via the AI Life app. You can tap on each device to access the respective feature and its corresponding services.

HarmonyOS Control Panel video demo:

Below you can check the video demonstration of the control panel and its features in actions.

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