{"id":221050,"date":"2026-03-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons-to-do-this-and-its-incredibly-convenient\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:35:10","slug":"i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons-to-do-this-and-its-incredibly-convenient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons-to-do-this-and-its-incredibly-convenient\/","title":{"rendered":"I mapped my Android&#8217;s volume buttons to do this and it&#8217;s incredibly convenient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons\/\">I mapped my Android&#8217;s volume buttons to do this and it&#8217;s incredibly convenient<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The volume buttons on your phone can do more than just adjust volume. In fact, that&#8217;s what I sought out to do: you see, every day I go on a jog with my phone and my headphones (but I&#8217;m not using Anker&#8217;s killer budget ANC headphones), and if I want to advance the track, I have to fish out my phone from my pocket to access the lock screen to change tracks. What if I could just reach into my pocket, blindly feel for the volume buttons, and advance the track that way?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, mapping your volume buttons to change the track on your audio is possible (this is Android, after all \u2014 anything is possible). On a Samsung Galaxy, there&#8217;s an easy Good Lock module to make this work (plus other modules you can use to make your Samsung Galaxy feel faster), and if you have a Pixel, you too can take back control of your volume buttons to control media.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-volume-buttons-are-a-wasted-opportunity\">\n                        The volume buttons are a wasted opportunity<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"they-can-do-more-than-just-control-volume\">\n            They can do more than just control volume<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Brandon Miniman \/ MakeUseOf<\/p>\n<p> Your power button does triple duty on most phones \u2014 a single press unlocks, a double press launches the camera, and a press-and-hold opens Gemini. Why can&#8217;t the volume buttons do more? On most devices, the volume buttons are the easiest to feel when the phone is in your pocket, since they take up a lot of physical space, making them ideal to control your media without you looking.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-set-up-sound-assistant-to-customize-volume-button-behavior-on-samsung-galaxy\">\n                        How to set up Sound&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mapped my Android&#8217;s volume buttons to do this and it&#8217;s incredibly convenient https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-mapped-my-androids-volume-buttons\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/feature-1.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[72,86],"class_list":["post-221050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221052,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221050\/revisions\/221052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}