iPhone: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

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, then 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.

  Tip

  If you're wearing the earbuds, you can pinch the clicker twice to skip to the next song.

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