Yesterday we covered some ways to control the iPod app on your iPhone with the headphone cable buttons. But they can do much more than just control your audio ! Read on to be educated!
Here’s 10 Hidden iPhone Headphone Tricks
The iPhone headphone button does a great many things depending upon what you’re doing at that particular moment on your phone. Here’s a handy list of all of 10 Hidden iPhone Headphone Tricks:
Receiving a Call
- Click the center button once to answer the call
- Click twice to send the call to voicemail
- Click once to hang up a call
- Hold for two seconds and release to decline new call
Receiving a Second Call
- Click the center button once to hold current call and switch calls
- Hold for three seconds and release to ignore new call
- Hold for two seconds then let go to end first call and switch to the second
iPhone Locked or Unlocked While Idle
- Click the center button once to begin playing music. Will restart from last song
- Click once to stop playing music
- Click twice to advance to next song
- Click three times to go back a song, will go back multiple songs
- Press and hold for 3 seconds to start Voice Control (3GS and iPhone 4 Only)
- Volume buttons available next to button (3GS and iPhone 4 Only)
