Additional Song Controls

From the Now Playing screen, tap the album cover.

The repeat, Genius, and shuffle controls appear along with the scrubber bar. You can see elapsed time, remaining time, and the song number. The song’s lyrics also appear, if you’ve added them to the song in iTunes.

The scrubber bar lets you skip to any point along the timeline. You can adjust the scrub rate from high-speed to fine by sliding your finger down as you drag the playhead along the scrubber bar.

The top portion of the Now Playing Screen showing at the top of the screen the title bar. Below the title bar from left to right are: the Repeat button, the scrubber bar showing how much of the song has been heard and how much remains to hear, the Genius button, the playhead, and the Shuffle button.

Set iPhone to repeat songs: 

Tap Repeat icon. Tap Repeat icon again to set iPhone to repeat only the current song.

Blue repeat icon = iPhone is set to repeat all songs in the current album or list.

Blue repeat icon with number 1 = iPhone is set to repeat the current song over and over.

White repeat icon = iPhone isn’t set to repeat songs.

Skip to any point in a song: 

Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar. Slide your finger down to adjust the scrub rate. The scrub rate becomes slower the farther down you slide your finger.

Make a Genius playlist: 

Tap Genius icon, and the Genius playlist appears. See Using Genius on iPhone.

Set iPhone to shuffle songs: 

Tap Shuffle icon. Tap Shuffle icon again to set iPhone to play songs in order.

Blue shuffle icon = iPhone is set to shuffle songs.

White shuffle icon = iPhone is set to play songs in order.

Shuffle the tracks in any playlist, album, or other list of songs: 

Tap Shuffle at the top of the list. For example, to shuffle all the songs on iPhone, choose Songs > Shuffle.

Whether or not iPhone is set to shuffle, if you tap Shuffle at the top of a list of songs, iPhone plays the songs from that list in random order.