Rewind after pause

Values

“Adaptive”

The longer the pause, the bigger the rewind. Selected by default.

2, 5, 10, 15, 30 s

Always that many seconds, however long the pause lasted.

“Off”

The book continues exactly from where it was paused.

How “Adaptive” counts

Pause under a minute

No rewind.

From a minute to 10 minutes

5 seconds.

From 10 minutes to an hour

10 seconds.

From an hour to a day

20 seconds.

A day or longer

30 seconds.

Where it applies

• Resuming after a pause, from anywhere: in the player, on the Lock Screen, from headphones and in CarPlay.
• After a call, if the book resumed by itself: the pause is counted from the start of the call.
• The pause survives the app being closed: if the system unloaded it overnight, the rewind still happens in the morning.
• The rewind can reach back into the end of the previous chapter.

When there is no rewind

• You picked the place yourself — a chapter, a bookmark, a point on the scrubber or “Back to where playback started”: the book plays from exactly there.
• The place came from another device.
• A book marked “Finished” continues without a rewind; if it is at its last second, or you tap “Listen again” on its card, it starts from the very beginning.
• The sleep timer fired with “Rewind when it fires”: the book has already gone back, and it does not rewind a second time. If that rewind is off, the rewind after pause works as usual.

Tip

If you get distracted for half a minute and want to hear the end of the sentence again, choose a fixed 5 seconds: “Adaptive” does not rewind after pauses shorter than a minute.

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