Can't control music on cover screen

[CallMeMocha]

I don't know what happened but after my phone did the last automatic update I can no longer control my music from any platform on the cover screen. I used to be able to play a song, flip it closed and when I swiped over i would be able to pause play and skip a song, but now when I swipe over while a song is playing it takes me straight to apps that Goodluck let's me use and I have to click the very tiny box at the lower left to pause play or stop which is very annoying and hard to do with nails- can someone please help or lmk if you experience it as well < I will insert pictures 

This is what is swipes to now while music is playing 

This is what it used to swipe too

[AllOverTechware]

You must have gotten the OneUI 8 update. I noticed the same thing, and it bothered me. BUT, it is no longer an entire widget, it's actually in the Now bar on the bottom left of the home cover screen, the small bubble. They made use of that little corner.

[AllOverTechware]

Notice the bottom left, on my flip 6, that's where the new controls are at.

[AllOverTechware]

Sorry, I somehow skipped that you knew about it. It's honestly annoying, I liked the big control center, also. Not sure why they decided to do this, but it's mildly inconvenient. Just a One UI 8 "perk"

[CallMeMocha]

Thank you for the response! Omg that sucks i loved the bigger widget now it seems like to many clicks to change a song or open an app. Especially depending on the case tapping in that little corner is hard lol

[Dan2023]

Change is hard, but perhaps, over time, you'll come to appreciate the new design. I hope so.

[CallMeMocha]

If I could at least move it from the bottom corner to anywhere else I could definitely learn to like it, until then I'll hope they remove that change lol.

[AllOverTechware]

Hey, I've figured something out just now. All I did was tap the control in the bottom left of the screen and it brought up the big widget that was always there before. Try tapping the album art on the left and it should bring the big player up.

[tlock]

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