After picking up my iPhone 3GS on Friday morning, I was listening to some music on the way home from work. I keep my iPhone (or iPod) in the car’s cupholder when it is plugged into the stereo. At some point I had to slam on brakes and suddenly heard a funny beeping noise, and something happened to the music. At first I was a little worried that something was wrong with my new iPhone, but I quickly remembered one of the new “features” of iPhone OS 3.0 – Shake to Shuffle.
Seems like a cool idea. But in practice it can be quite annoying. Jogging with shake to shuffle is certainly going to provide an interesting, if not frustrating mix. Luckily Apple provided a fairly easy way to turn off the feature.
- From the home screen, go to Settings.
- Scroll down in settings and select “iPod” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
- The top option in the iPod settings menu is “Shake to Shuffle.” Tap the slider to turn it off.
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June 29th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Yayyyy finally
June 29th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Yeah, there’s nothing worse than walking down the street and having your songs keep skipping.
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December 1st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Thank god!! I almost smashed it at the gym a few times
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 am
Brilliant, thanks! I run with my iphone/ipod and was spontaneously shuffling.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Thanks for the tip! It gets annoying when cycling now I can finally listen to a complete track YAY!
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July 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am
No problem! I had the same problem as well. Some features should just be off by default. ;)
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August 2nd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Thanks for the help … updated to 3.0 and couldn’t figure out what was wrong, then I remembered about Shake to Shuffle!!! With these instructions it was easy to turn it off.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:31 am
It’s totally something that should be off from the start. I was so annoyed mid run when it started jumping around. There’s nothing worse than trying to figure out how to turn it off when you’re out of breath. ;)
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August 2nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Guess it only took me a couple of months to look for the solution – thanks for sharing! It has helped tremendously.
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August 4th, 2009 at 8:28 am
No problem. It’s what we’re here for! :)
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August 5th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I’m just thinking about one thing – why are we complaining about this “shake to shuffle” tool. I find it really helpful.
Yes, indeed – my wife’s been all the time complaining about it, as she loves walking our dog, and while walking the pet, her songs are randomly skipping.
Today I decided to find the solutions for my wife, and you guys came up with it online. I wasn’t even thinking about going to my apple iPhone on iPod options, and adjust them accordingly – shame on me! :)
So yeah, my wife’s smiling, me sad that lost of individuals complain about this feature that I thank Apple for.
Let’s not complain, but find a solution to adjust our needs, by researching/investigating. :)
Thanks guys for the hint.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:14 am
thank you, I can run again!!!!!!
September 8th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Thank you. This was driving me crazy when I was walking my two dogs.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Thank God! I had no idea what was going on…I wanted to throw my IPOD out of the window earlier today!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
It threw me for a little bit of a loop as well. :)
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:28 am
THANK YOU! I hated that feature! Can’t wait to go out and mow the lawn now. Very much appreciate the tip.
September 16th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Thanks for this.
I just updated to 3.0
This is a good feature but pretty stupid to have on by default
September 21st, 2009 at 9:03 am
Ive been jogging for about a month with this shake to shuffle switched on unbeknown to me. It was rather infuriating to say the least.
Thanks for resolving it.
September 21st, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I couldn’t even begin to imagine that. It was annoying me while I was walking. Had I not caught it before I went jogging, I probably would have thrown the thing in the lake.
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September 25th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
HOOOORAY! Was driving me nuts when I jogged! Now it’s perfect!!!!!!!
October 18th, 2009 at 3:58 am
You rock. This was driving me nuts. Didn’t realize it was a new feature.
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October 21st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
No prob. It was pretty sneaky. :)
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November 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Thanks so much – this was really helpful. Before, my audio book experience was really bad!!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I was annoyed when my songs were changing. I can’t even begin to imagine how crappy it is for audiobooks. Glad we could help.
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November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Thank you! That was bugging me.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
awesome! Like others this was driving my crazy while walking with iphone-ipod playing from my pants pocket. Thanks for sharing!
November 20th, 2009 at 2:26 am
What on Earth was Apple thinking, turning this asinine feature on by default? I came close to hurling my iPhone across the gym when it wouldn’t stop beeping and shuffling by itself while running on the treadmill.
November 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I LOVE U!!!!!!!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Yeah someone finally told me this! Only after I got so mad at the gym this a.m. that I through it on the ground!
What a stupid feature & to have it as a default setting! Extremely annoying and useless. I should have known it was the new OS b/c after that update that’s when the trouble started.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I too suffered for months from this (while jogging) until I decided to
research. My assumption was that the encoding of the music was bad. Then it happened – a song played fine that DIDN’T play fine the last time (I’ve got a large.. music collection so I didn’t really notice before).
Usually Apple is on the ball about stuff like this. This is just bad software design. Shake to shuffle is fine as a feature but it needs to give a visual cue when it happens so that you know what’s going on. Prefereably with the words ’shake to suffle active” in the visual cue so you can google search it.
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November 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Well, it was certainly surprising to have my songs skipping around while I was jogging. Glad I remembered the feature “shake to shuffle” so I could find the answer to disable it, online.
Great to have an easy fix!
Thank you.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:13 am
Thanks a million. I was ready to give up on my well-chosen music because of this annoying feature. Whose brilliant dumb ass idea was it anyway?
December 1st, 2009 at 1:13 am
Thanks a million. I was ready to give up on my well-chosen music because of this annoying feature.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Stupid and pointless feature – was ready to smash the iphone until I found you could this crap off!
Thanks!
January 27th, 2010 at 5:41 am
My car is very jumpy. I keep seeing the message “Nothing to undo”. Easy to press the “Cancel” button but I suspect the same shake function is causing this message. How do I stop it?
February 15th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Thanks a ton! I hate this “feature” & I’m glad to be free of it.