Not loving the new APP music controls

[bbates123]

I love most everything about my Airpods Pro but after several weeks of use I still haven't gotten used to the new way to control music. I loved the tap/double-tap of the original Airpods. I'm struggling with the squeezing. I generally have no problems with play/pause, it's more of an issue with the double squeeze for skip. Seems like when I want to skip I more often pause or even rewind. It's like you have to find the sweet spot and double squeeze not too fast and not too slow. I find it particularly frustrating when I'm running and especially when my fingers are cold. When I'm listening to Spotify I find myself going to the app to skip more than I used to. Anybody else?

 

[Otflyer]

I love most everything about my Airpods Pro but after several weeks of use I still haven't gotten used to the new way to control music. I loved the tap/double-tap of the original Airpods. I'm struggling with the squeezing. I generally have no problems with play/pause, it's more of an issue with the double squeeze for skip. Seems like when I want to skip I more often pause or even rewind. It's like you have to find the sweet spot and double squeeze not too fast and not too slow. I find it particularly frustrating when I'm running and especially when my fingers are cold. When I'm listening to Spotify I find myself going to the app to skip more than I used to. Anybody else?

You can go into settings and adjust the squeeze response time to faster or slower.

 

[bbates123]

Yep, and I've played around with that but it doesn't seem to help. I'm guessing I'm in the minority here.

 

[LeeW]

when out running I have been using Siri to skip tracks, seems to work fine for me. I don't have any issues appearing to talk to myself a lot though

 

[zhenya]

I like the single squeezes well enough, but I can see how the fast double-squeezes could be difficult. Like others, I mostly control things by voice. I find Siri responds to these even at very low volumes.

 

[bbates123]

Next time I'm out for a run I'll try using Siri instead. I'll probably find the delay to be annoying but the convenience factor might make up for it.