MacOSG: How to play iPhone music videos in the background

Posted by Daniel East Sep 24, 2008 at 9:00am

If you’re watching a video and you lock your iPhone or return to the home screen, video playback stops. This makes sense for movies, but for music videos, a user may want to listen to the music without actually watching the video.

The simple workaround is to set the Home button’s functionality to iPod in the iPhone’s preferences. Next start any music video, and press the screen lock button (this pauses the music). Now press the screen lock button or the Home button again to show the unlock screen. Double tap the Home button and the iPod controls will appear. Press play and you are good to go!

If you want to use the iPhone for other things, such as browsing Safari, make sure you press the Home button before you lock the screen. This way, when you unlock the phone, you won’t be taken back to the music video, but instead will be on the home screen.

Note: Pressing the Home button while in a video pauses the video, and that double tapping for iPod controls while the phone is unlocked takes you back to the video instead of showing the controls.

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