Non-motoring > iPhone - stopping something playing Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Focusless Replies: 19
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 10:33 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
If you start something playing eg. iPlayer then go back to the home screen, it keeps playing (as expected). What's the quickest way to stop it - do you have to remember/work out what's playing, find the app and go into it to stop it, or is there some sort of shortcut?

Not a big problem, just feel like I'm missing something.

I'm really enjoying having the iPhone, despite previously not wanting a smartphone. Of course the fact that it's free (from work) helps :)
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 10:46 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - WillDeBeest
If there's an answer, Blurry, I've yet to find it. I put mine on a speaker dock for the night to charge it, and every so often something will start playing spontaneously and wake me up - in the room above. And mine's an ancient 3G that is not supposed to be capable of more than one task at a time.
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 10:53 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
Ok, thanks WDB. (BTW when I said iPlayer, I meant iPlayer Radio.)
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 10:53 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - smokie
I have an app on the Android which automatically starts playing mp3s as soon as headphones are plugged in. On the Android, you drag down the top bar to see what's active, click it to full-size, and this particular app you hold the pause button to stop it playing.
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:00 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Zero
you can hold the round home button to show what apps are running, then hold the app icon
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:03 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> you can hold the round home button to show what apps are running, then hold
>> the app icon

I hold down the home button and get Siri - have I got the wrong button?
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:04 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Zero
then tell siri to stop iplayer.
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:05 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> then tell siri to stop iplayer.

"Sorry, Focusless, I can't do that. You're not listening to the Music app." :(

EDIT: although it has stopped it, because it had to speak I guess.
Last edited by: Focusless on Fri 18 Jan 13 at 11:06
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:08 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> EDIT: although it has stopped it, because it had to speak I guess.

Actually iPlayer thinks it's still playing (it's displaying the stop button rather than the play button, and the spectrum graph thing is moving around at the bottom) - bug!
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 14:50 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - VxFan
>> you can hold the round home button to show what apps are running, then hold
>> the app icon

Nope. You press the home button twice in a row to do that. Then you can hold your finger on the app at the bottom of the screen for a couple of seconds for the no entry symbol to appear to then close that particular app. Close any other apps while you're there too. press the home button or tap anywhere else on the screen to resume phone back to normal.

Also if you're playing something while the phone screen is off/locked, you can also press the home button twice to bring up the play/pause/forward/back icons.
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 18 Jan 13 at 14:53
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 15:31 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> Nope. You press the home button twice in a row to do that.

Thanks Vx - I knew there had to be something!
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 15:34 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> >> Nope. You press the home button twice in a row to do that.
>>
>> Thanks Vx - I knew there had to be something!

But... I hadn't realised that if you swipe left or right, it looks like all my apps are there...
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New Sat 19 Jan 13 09:13 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> >> >> Nope. You press the home button twice in a row to do that.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks Vx - I knew there had to be something!
>>
>> But... I hadn't realised that if you swipe left or right, it looks like all
>> my apps are there...

Sorry, you're right - swiping right displays 'player' controls and an icon indicating what's playing. Thanks.
Last edited by: Focusless on Sat 19 Jan 13 at 09:14
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New Sat 19 Jan 13 15:56 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Rudedog
Thanks for that, I wondered how you quit an app if there wasn't an off button built into the app itself.
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 11:01 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Focusless
>> I have an app on the Android

I thought you'd got it there smokie - I pulled down the notifications thing from the top of the screen, but it doesn't mention what's playing.

There is a 'playing' right-arrow icon that appears near the battery status at the top of the screen, but that just tells me what I already know :)
Last edited by: Focusless on Fri 18 Jan 13 at 11:04
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 14:55 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - BobbyG
Just pull the battery out the back and reinsert ...........
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 15:00 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - VxFan
Bobby, you've obviously not got an iPhone else you would know you can't *just* take the back off to remove the battery (not without the correct screwdriver anyway)
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 15:23 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - Zero
I think he was jerking your chain.
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New Fri 18 Jan 13 16:52 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - BobbyG
:)
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New Sat 19 Jan 13 01:20 
 iPhone - stopping something playing - VxFan
>> I think he was jerking your chain.

He'll have a job, our bog doesn't have a chain.
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