Thank you for your quick reply.
I'm only using one finger but it still brings the whole control panel down. The setting you mentioned is on and I've tried restarting my phone, resetting all settings but nothing makes it right. I'm going to factory reset to see if that solves it but that's something I really don't want to do.
I can swipe down from the lower half of the screen and the full control panel shows.
I wish I knew if it was something I did to make the phone act that way then I could make it right again.
Thank you again.