iPhone: Control iPod functions through headphones

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon July 2, 2007  
Tag Icon Tagged: Apple iPhone

The little microphone/switch that bulges out on the right side of the headphones included with the iPhone can do some neat tricks other than answer or hang up a call. When not in a call, you can use this switch to control the iPod functions of the iPhone. It’s a testament to Apple’s designers to implement something simple like this that would be easy to overlook.


When not on a call, if you click the iPhone’s headphone switch once, music will start playing without having to access the iPod features through the screen. The iPhone doesn’t even need to be unlocked for this to work.

Tap the switch once again and the music will pause.

Double-click the switch twice quickly and you will fast forward to the next song.

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  • tim
    Click 3 times and you jump back to the previous song
  • Daniil
    If you triple-tap it (3 times fast) it rewinds
  • zach
    where do u get these headphones?
  • tom
    you get them when you buy an iphone :-)
  • Click Master
    Triple click the switch, it plays the previous song.
  • Rob
    Click three times and it goes back a song! Shame no volume control though.
  • Name
    Rob, there is volume control, if you look theres a plus and minus on the control specifically for volume control
  • Press and hold the switch and it activates voice control allowing you to jump to any song if your voice is clear enough
  • Click and hold the headphone button to activate voice control on the new 3gs
  • whoopdido2u2
    If you pause then dub tap then restarts the playlist
  • Ben
    with the skip forward & skip back control, if you hold the button on the final tap it will fast forward/ rewind the current song (ie click twice quickly and hold on the 2nd click and it will audio scrub forward). Takes a bit of practice but bloody brilliant when you get it
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