[minimaxir]

If you have an Apple Watch, you can control audio/volume from there. (having the Now Playing complication helps too)

[tedmiston]

I don't have a watch myself... I've been pulling out my iPhone and doing all of the controls there.

Not sure if my AirPods are defective, but I'm getting a successful detection from a tap on the AirPod sensor maybe 1/3 of the time.

[MBCook]

Mine are about 100%, but it does seem to require a decent little thunk. You can't just touch it. I've heard people say they don't like it because it feels uncomfortable in your ear when you hit it hard enough. It doesn't bother me but I'm not going to say it feels good.

I don't think it's capacitive, I think it's based on the little chip's gyro sensor.

[nardi]

Just to be sure—you're both doing a double tap, right? It has to be a double tap. Mine responds just fine unless I hit it weird, which has only happened a couple of times.

[tedmiston]

Yeah, looks like I wasn't thunking it hard enough. I was tapping it with the force of a tap to click trackpad.

[MBCook]

Yes. I am.

[glhaynes]

There's not a Now Playing complication, is there? I hope I'm just missing it somehow because it'd be my most used complication by a long shot.

[minimaxir]

Specifically, it's named the Music complication, but it remembers state and will restore the Now Playing UI if it was present.

[kobayashi]

Yes, but (very unfortunately) it only works with the native iOS Music app.

[mordant]

Untrue - it works just fine with Pocket Casts, for example.

[glhaynes]

Interesting. It doesn't seem to work at all with the built-in Podcasts app. Come on, Apple.