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Originally Posted by haertig
[edit] p.s. - Even though I had already ruled out the Apple earbuds because of expense, I looked a little closer and would have ruled them out for functionality as well. There is no mechanism for them to play/pause - no buttons. That totally defeats my purpose for wanting earbuds. I guess Apple expects you to do all those functions by voice using Siri. This is not applicable for me. And I would think it would be annoying to people near you in an office setting if you had to speak all your commands rather than silently pressing buttons. Oh well, so much for Apple's design. Way too expensive for me anyway... [/edit]
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With iOS device, you can assign double-tap action to play/pause (or Next Track, or Previous Track, or Off — default invokes Siri listening without ‘hey siri’ wake phrase) for one or both AirPods. That said, it takes a bit of ear-hand coordination to reliably double tap an earbud. And as others mention, to pause during playback just remove one earbud from your ear, and replace it to resume playback.
Love my AirPods, but I also carry wired, active noise cancelling headset (Pioneer Rayz) for noisy environments (train commute, overcome road noise when driving). AirPods don’t provide sufficient isolation from external sound in those environments, but are otherwise far superior to other BT headsets I have used previously (and did not cost that much more all things considered).
Apparently (I have not tried it) double-tap on either earbud when paired to an Android device will pause/play (but no way to assign a different function). Quite possibly removing earbud works as well to pause. They generate standard Bluetooth events.
To take a call, double-tap. Double-tap again to hang up.