iPhone: Double Tap for iPod Controls
December 17th, 2008
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet: in Settings -> General -> Home Button there’s a choice labeled “iPod Controls”. If you turn this on then you’ll get a little iPod pop up if you double click the home button while a song is playing. It shows rewind, play/pause, fast forward, and the volume slider, and it leaves the underlying program completely intact. So, if you’re using Google Maps you can bring up the iTunes menu, and Google Maps stays right there waiting in the background. As soon as you click something, the iPod menu disappears and Google Maps is good to go.
The best part is, you can get this menu even when the iPhone is locked. So when you’re listening to a podcast, and you want to stop it for a second to buy some coffee, you can just double-click home and pause.
If you don’t have “iPod Controls” enabled then you have to click home, slide, click home, tap iTunes, tap Now Playing, and then tap pause. “iPod Controls” is a big win in my book.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I hated the Touch as a music player before this discovery, several months ago. It’s really good engineering and UI design, but needs to be mentioned a lot more prominently.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Alot of bloggers not really happy with this new iPad.There was just too much hype regarding it and lots of blogers got disapointed.You see, I for one see lots of the cool potential of this device. Third-party apps for working with music, games, newsprints and magazine and books, all sorts of good stuff, but they failed to sell it properly (excluding the books). It feels kind of incomplete