Bought this last Christmas for summer. But when I finally started using them for open water swimming learned that the hypersensitive touch control puts your music to continuously pause-play- fast forward. Tried to lock as the control as per instruction didn’t worked. Tried it several times even tried putting some adhesive padding to dampen the hypersensitivity... still nope. Also as I tried to bear the annoying pause/play/ fforward cycle the volume faded to nothing Finally given up and filed this purchase under: total waste of money.

I wanted them to work, but they don't. At least not for lap swimming. Yes, I put them into MP3 mode BEFORE entering the pool. Even with them in MP3 mode, they would switch to bluetooth or pause the song every time I turned my head to take a breath on the right side. The difference in pressure between the water and the air when breathing was enough for the device to think I was touching it and switch modes or pause the song. If you're a snorkel swimmer it might work perfect, since your ears stay at the same level the whole time. Sound was great underwater, loading music is easy, the contols are just to sensitive. If there is a different way to LOCK them besides entering into MP3 mode, the manual doesn't list it.

These headphones are marketed as waterproof SWIMMING headphones but I don’t think I have ever used a more infuriating and useless piece of technology. The MP3 function switches to Bluetooth as soon as you hit the water, rendering the headphones useless as Bluetooth doesn’t work underwater. Think you have the headphones locked on MP3? Nope. Guess again. The sound cuts out and switches back to Bluetooth as soon as you push off from the wall. These are basically awkward, bulky, and overpriced wireless Bluetooth headphones. Save yourself the money and headache. Do not buy these if you’re looking for swimming headphones. Useless money grab.