Hi Dave, One option I use to switch from an app to control music and then switch back takes advantage of the lock screen behavior of the iPhone. I have my iPhone set with a password, and under Settings > General > Passcode Lock I have the option to Require Passcode set to be "After 5 minutes". If I am reading mail and want to switch to the next track, I click the power button, which locks the screen, and then double click the Home button, which brings up the music player controls. Then I flick to the controls, pause, or advance, etc. or check the current track information, and flick to the lock screen button and double tap to get back to the app I was using.
You do have to be using a password for your iPhone for this method to work, and the key is to choose a value for requiring a Password that is not "Immediate". Please note that I am using an iPhone 5 without Touch ID. Apparently Apple decided to only allow Passwords to be required "Immediately" on devices that have Touch ID activated for iPhone unlock. So if you have a device with Touch ID enabled, you'd unlock however that feature requires. This works for me, where I only have to flick past the music player controls to the lock screen button and double tap, but I don't know whether this works well for everyone. I've been using this method since I got my iPhone 5 a couple of years ago. CJ's instructions should work quite generally via the App Switcher or the Control Panel. HTH Esther On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 4:01:34 PM UTC-10, CJ wrote: > You can use the App Switcher like you would for any app. Just double tap > the home button, flick right until you get to the Music app and then > double tap to bring it up. > > I'm not sure it's any easier, but you can also use the Control Panel. > Touch the status bar at the top, such as where the time is located and > then do a three finger swipe up. You'll have a widget in the control > panel to play/pause, go to the previous/next track or adjust the volume. > > On 02/13/2015 06:24 PM, Dave Bahr wrote: > > Hi. How do I switch to the music player from within an app to skip a > > song or pause or something? Surprisingly, for someone who is a > > musicologist, I've never really used my phone for music. But now I have > > a bigger model and can use my subsonic server too. I also have had an > > issue though where answering the phone with the two finger double tap > > has started the music player, anyone else have that problem? > > > > thanks, dave > > > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
