Essential Mac Keyboard Shortcuts: Use Spacebar to pause/resume audio and video in iTunes and YouTube

Updated June 10th, 2019.

Tap the spacebar in iTunes to pause the music (or video). Tap it again to resume. Actually, it’s even better than this, as the spacebar works this way for Quicktime movies and in iMovie and on YouTube as well

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Tapping the space bar to toggle from Play to Pause to Play to Pause…

In case you wondered– it’s JUST the space bar. No Command, no Control, no Option, no Shift. Just the space bar.


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2 thoughts on “Essential Mac Keyboard Shortcuts: Use Spacebar to pause/resume audio and video in iTunes and YouTube

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    1. If your cursor is in a text field the space bar should just make a space, not toggle pause/play. Let me know if that is happening differently for you. Also, which browser are you using? I have a similar problem when using the space bar to scroll down a web page. If there is a video on the page, the space bar makes it start playing. Yuck.

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