Controlling Your Music

When your iPhone plays a song, you have several options for controlling the song or viewing information about it. If you want, you can ignore all these options and just listen to music, but by learning what you can do while listening to a song, you can better control your listening experience.

Adjusting the Volume and Pausing

The most obvious way to adjust a song is by changing the volume. The Volume Up and Volume Down buttons on the side of the iPhone let you adjust the volume, but while each song is playing, you'll see a horizontal volume slider at the bottom of the Now Playing screen that you can slide to the left or right with your fingertip, as shown in Figure 19-3.

Note

If you press the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons ...

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