Everyone has the same problem with headphones: they get tangled as soon as you stop using them. If you put them in your pocket, or a bag, or anywhere at all, they tangle around each other and when you want to use them again you have to spent five minutes straightening them back out. There are many so-called ’solutions’ to this, but almost all of them require wrapping your headphones tightly around something. This is a bad idea because it can damage the cable inside the wires, which means you’re going to have to buy a new pair.
But now, for iPhone 3GS users, there is a way to stop tangling 99% of the time with no tight wrapping or damage occurring. Olly Farshi, of The Apple Blog has prepared a video tutorial on how to do this:
Hopefully this will stop tangling and damage to our Apple-issue headphones. If I remember to do this each time, that is.
[Via The Apple Blog]