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Figure 12: With Apple's Remote app, you can either use interface control
(left) or media control (right).
There are three buttons on the bottom of the Control screen. From left to right, they are Op-
tions , Menu, and Play/Pause <sub> </sub>. While watching an iTunes movie, pressing
Options lets you quickly select chapters, subtitles, audio tracks, and AirPlay Speakers. The
Menu and Play/Pause buttons behave just as they do on the Apple Remote.
TheRemoteapp'sgesturecontrolscanbeslippery.It'seasytoovershootyourtargetwithout
the tactile feedback of pressing a button on the Apple Remote. However, if you are playing
content through Home Sharing, you can skip the Control screen in the Remote app and in-
stead control the content playing on the Apple TV just as you would any local content on
your iPhone by tapping Done in the upper right of the Control screen to switch to the Com-
puters screen, then tapping the Now Playing button in the upper-right corner of the Com-
puters screen.
On the Now Playing screen ( Figure 13 ), you see the currently playing title featured prom-
inently on the top. In the middle of the screen is a track position scrubber. Drag the knob
to scroll through the title's timeline. On the bottom is a button that skips 10 seconds back,
a Play/Pause button, and Next and Previous buttons, which skip forward or backward 30
seconds,respectively.PresseitherNextorPrevioustorewindorfast-forward.Thelongeryou
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