[mhenr18]

This idea is cool, except for the gesture. There needs to be a way to summon a block with one finger so that one-handed use is still possible.

I'm assuming that the drive to stay as close to the current experience as possible influenced that - there's currently no "free" one-finger gesture/action on the home screen. I don't know how to pull it off, but needing to use two hands seems like it kills off the notion of doing things quickly.

edit: Although it's worth pointing out that while it's a cool party trick, it's not something I'd use day-to-day. Changing the Control Centre to let me keep applets open within it for things like 1Password or composing a message? That would get used every day.

[andrewfong]

+1 for control center applets. Android apps often do this by overloading the notifications pull down, but I always found this annoying since it got in the way of the actual notifications. A swipe left on the notifications tab or an extension of the control center for a "quick access" area would be great.