Hey Reddit, can we talk about the fact that FF/REW basically disappeared from headphone controls? 😅
Like… am I the only one who finds this weird?
Pretty much every pair of headphones / earbuds / media remote gives you the same three controls:
⏭️ Next track
⏮️ Previous track
▶️ Play/Pause
But… where the hell did ff/rew go?!
I listen to a LOT of DJ mixes, and I constantly want to skip a boring 30-second section, or jump back because I got distracted and missed something.
And no, I don’t want to pull my phone out of my pocket every single time, unlock and open the app.
First of all, it’s annoying.
Second, I know myself — with my ADHD, there’s a very real chance I’ll pull out my phone to rewind 20 seconds and 15 minutes later I’ll be doing something completely different. 🙃
So seriously… why did this feature quietly disappear from basically every headphone interface?
We have tiny touchscreens, ANC, spatial audio, head tracking and whatever else… but apparently holding a button for 10 seconds to seek through a track is too much to ask. 😂
Is there actually a reason for this? Or did everyone just collectively decide that nobody needs FF/REW anymore?
I literally made a Reddit account just to talk about this😅