control center (or control centre in some countries) is a feature of apple inc.'s ios operating system, introduced as part of ios 7, released on september 18, 2013. it gives ios devices direct access to important settings for the device by swiping a finger up from the bottom of the display (or a swipe down from the top right corner on iphone x, xs and xr series and ipad devices). it is similar to the sbsettings tweak for ios jailbreaking.