How to Customize AirPods Double-Tap Controls
Here’s a little secret that you may not have known or forgotten long ago. On the side of every Apple AirPod, there is a double-tap control that can toggle one of several actions, including calling Siri on your iPhone, pausing or resuming audio, and skipping back and forth between tracks.
What’s more, you can assign each AirPod a specific double-tap action so that one ear can skip tracks and the other handles playback and pauses music, as long as you don’t mind looking a little silly when you touch both sides of your earbud. come back to work again and again.
To get started customizing the AirPods double-tap controls:
- Open the iPhone Settings app and tap Bluetooth.
- Find your AirPods in the Connected Devices list and click the “i” icon next to them to open their device settings.
- Scroll down to Double-tap on AirPod, then tap the left or right AirPod option on the screen to edit the double-tap action for that particular AirPod.
- Select the desired double-tap action from the list: open Siri, play / pause, skip track, and previous track.
- After selecting the desired double-tap action, you can click on the “AirPod” name in the upper left corner to return to the previous menu screen.
[ CNET ]