iPhone: iPod Controls In Standby
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 6:21 pmI discovered this by accident this afternoon when I was wiping off my screen.
With the screen of your iPhone off, hit the Home button twice. iPod controls come up on-screen.
I usually use the clicker on the headphone wire when I’m using my phone as an iPod, but you can’t just plug in the headphones and click the button to start playing. It also seems to “forget” you were listening to music if you pause it and do anything else on the phone. Until now, I thought you had to tap the iPod icon and navigate back to what you had been listening to. This little shortcut is pretty handy, methinks.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Hmm, when I heard about the ‘clicker’ in the iphone headphones, I figured it had to be something microphone driven that I wasn’t able to get to work at all (like most Apple products). I see now that it is actually a button on the back side of the microphone underneath the plastic cover (posted on LiveJournal)
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Just squeeze the whole thing. Once to pause, start playing, or start or end a call. A quick double-squeeze will advance to the next track. (posted on LiveJournal)
January 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
You can also configure what the double-click navigates to, buried somewhere in settings. (posted on LiveJournal)
January 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Settings > General > Home Button
You can change what the home button does when you double click normally, but it only does the iPod controls while in standby (as far as I can), although you can turn that off there too. (posted on LiveJournal)