iPod touch User Guide
- Welcome
- Your iPod touch
- What’s new in iOS 14
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off the sounds
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Open apps
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Search with iPod touch
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- Add widgets
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPod touch
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- Calculator
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- View maps
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- Use Siri, Maps, and widgets to get directions
- Choose your preferred type of travel
- Get driving directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
- Select other route options
- Get directions between places other than your current location
- Delete recently viewed directions
- Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
- Help correct and improve Maps
- Get rides
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- View photos and videos
- Delete and hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
- Weather
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- Accessories for charging iPod touch
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- Set up AirPods
- Charge AirPods
- Start and stop audio playback
- Change the AirPods volume
- Make and answer calls with AirPods
- Switch AirPods between devices
- Use Siri with AirPods
- Listen and respond to messages
- Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones
- Change noise control modes
- Restart AirPods
- Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
- Use other Bluetooth headphones
- Use EarPods
- Check headphone sound levels
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Magic Keyboard
- Printers
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPod touch using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type onscreen braille
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Copyright
Listen to audio stories on iPod touch
If you subscribe to Apple News+, you can listen to audio versions of select stories in the News app 
.
Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and the audio feature aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Browse audio stories
Tap 
to see Apple News+ audio stories and Apple News Today. Subscribers see the following headings:
Up Next: Stories you’re currently listening to or have added to the Up Next queue.
For You: Stories recommended to you based on your interests.
Recently Played: Stories you’ve listened to.
To browse all audio stories, scroll to the end of For You, then tap See All Audio Stories. You can browse all stories, or stories organized by category—News & Politics, Arts & Culture, and Lifestyle, for example.
If you’re not an Apple News+ subscriber, previews of audio stories appear under Previews For You.
Play audio stories
Tap
, then tap a story.For more playback controls, tap the mini player at the bottom to open the full-screen player.
To return to the mini player, swipe down to minimize the full-screen player.
To close the full-screen player, tap
, then tap Close Audio Player. To close the mini player, touch and hold the player, then tap Close Audio Player.Audio stories can also appear in a feed. Tap a story to read it. To listen to the story, tap Listen at the top of the story (Apple News+ subscription required). If you’re not a subscriber, you can listen to a preview of the story.
Note: If you’re an Apple News+ subscriber, when you tap a story, it’s downloaded to iPod touch so you can listen to it later without an internet connection.
Use any of the following controls:
Control
Description
Play
Pause
Next story
Jump back 15 seconds
Choose a faster or slower playback speed
Choose more actions such as place a story next or last in the queue, read a story, or share it
Add stories to Up Next
Tap , then do one of the following:
Tap
next to a story from For You, then choose Play Next or Play Last.Touch and hold a story, then tap Play Next to play the story right after the currently playing story. Tap Play Last to add the story to the end of the queue.
Touch and hold 
, then drag stories to reorder them in your Up Next queue.
Read, share, and delete audio stories
When browsing a list of stories in the Audio tab, touch and hold a story to see the following options:
Play Next
Play Last
Read Story
Delete
Share
Suggest More Like This
Suggest Less Like This
Follow Channel
Block Channel
Report a Concern
Some of these options are also available when you swipe left or right on a story.
When listening to a story, open the full-screen player, then tap to see a list of similar options.