Using the Apple Headset(Headphones)

If you're listening to music. videos, etc, you'll want to use the headset that comes with your iPhone. It plugs right into the headset jack at the iPhone. Here's why Apple calls it a "headset" rather than "Headphone": If you're listing to something on the iPhone and a call comes in, you can pause whatever you're listening to and take the call by pressing a tiny button attached to the headset's cord (shown circled above). You don't have to pick up the phone to talk, because there's a tiny mic built into that button. You can also use this button to switch music tracks when you're listening to your iPhone's iPod. To pause, you just click the button once. To skip, click two times quickly. But it does even more than that. For example, if you're on one call and you get another call (via call waiting), click once to hold the current call and then take the incoming call, if you want the incoming call to go straight to your voice mail, just click-and-hold the button for a few seconds, and when you let go, of it goes. Lastly, if you're on one call and another call comes in, and you want to hang up from your first call and take this new call, you click-and hold the button for a couple of seconds until you hear two little beeps, which lets you know that you've hung up with caller #1, and you're now on with caller #2. Also, if you have an iPhone 3GS, you can use the + (plus sign) and -(minus sign) buttons on the headset's button to control the volume.