iPhone THE MISSING MANUAL - Cdn.oreilly.com

Controlling Playback (Music)
Once you’re on the Now Playing screen, a few controls await your fingertip—
some obvious and some not so obvious.
•
•
•
Play/Pause (÷/¿) button. The Pause button looks like this ¿ when the
music is playing. If you do pause the music, the button turns into the Play
button (÷).
if you’re wearing the earbuds, pinching the microphone clicker serves the same
purpose: it’s a Play/Pause control.
incidentally, when you plug in headphones, the iPhone’s built-in speaker turns off,
but when you unplug the headphones, your music pauses instead of switching
abruptly back to the speaker. You may have to unlock the iPhone and navigate to
the iPod program to resume playback.
Previous, Next («, »). These buttons work exactly as they do on an
iPod. That is, tap « to skip to the beginning of this song (or, if you’re
already at the beginning, to the previous song). Tap » to skip to the
next song.
if you’re wearing the earbuds, you can pinch the clicker twice to skip to the next
song.
If you hold down one of these buttons instead of tapping, you rewind or
fast-forward. It’s rather cool, actually—you get to hear the music speeding
by as you keep your finger down, without turning the singer into a
chipmunk. The rewinding or fast-forwarding accelerates if you keep holding
down the button.
Volume. You can drag the round, white handle of this scroll bar (bottom
of the screen) to adjust the volume—or you can use the volume keys on
the left side of the phone.
Of course, you probably didn’t need a handsome full-color book to tell you
what those basic playback controls are for. But there’s also a trio of secret controls
that don’t appear until you tap anywhere on an empty part of the screen
(for example, on the album cover):
Music and video 79