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 (►).Tip
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. ...
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