What the iPhone registered when you thought you did a 3-finger double tap was a 2-finger double tap which is the so-called "magic tap" which works as Play/Pause or to answer a call when your phone rings or to hang up when you are done. In the last couple of versions of iOS even if the app switcher is empty a 2-finger double tap often starts playing whatever you were last playing, e.g. if you played music it will start playing music, if you had been listening to an Audible book it would start playing your book. There are 2 ways to stop playback, the easiest is to simply do another 2-finger double tap and it will stop whatever is playing. If that for some reason does not work you could open the music app if that is what is playing and find the Pause/Stop button there, but it should not be necessary. This happens to me at times as well and what happens especially often is that when I hang up a phone call with a 2-finger double tap and if the other person had already hung up it starts playing the book I last listened to on Audible. This is because the call has already ended so iOS interprets the 2-finger double tap as Play/Pause and not "Answer/Hang Up. When this happens I simply do another 2-finger double tap and it stops again.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of sherrywells1...@gmail.com Sent: August 25, 2021 6:45 AM To: 'VIPhone' <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: How to Stop Music That is Playing Hello, I have an IPhone 8 & am current with IOS. Several times now I have somehow accidentally tapped on something & the last song I played starts playing. I can see a box on the screen & moving my finger around the box gives me all sorts of info except stop. I can’t even find a mute button. App switcher does not contain the app playing the song so no way to stop it there either. I have had to turn my phone off & back on. Surely there is an obvious, better way that I am missing. Also, any ideas as to what could have accidentally started music playing? The music icon is at the very bottom right of my screen so I would have to make a deliberate choice to tap there. This morning it started when I did a 3 finger double tap to mute voice over. Thanks, Sherry Wells -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com<mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> 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<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/00d301d799b7%247767df80%2466379e80%24%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/00d301d799b7%247767df80%2466379e80%24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/SJ0PR06MB7862AD8F6694DAFC7257B816C7C69%40SJ0PR06MB7862.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
