iPod touch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off the sounds
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPod touch
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPod touch using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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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
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom in on the screen
- Magnifier
- Display settings
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- Guided Access
- Copyright
Watch content in the Apple TV app on iPod touch
Start playing content from the Apple TV app on iPod touch. Content from iTunes and supported services plays in the Apple TV app, while content from other providers plays in their video app.
Watch content
Tap the title to see the details screen.
Choose any of the following options (not all options are available for all titles):
Watch an Apple Channel: (iOS 12.3) Tap Play. If you’re not a current subscriber, tap Try It Free or Subscribe.
Watch with the suggested video app: Tap Play.
Choose a different video app: If the content is available from multiple providers, scroll down to How To Watch, then choose a provider.
Buy or rent from the iTunes Store: Tap Buy or Rent. See Get music, movies, TV shows, and more in the iTunes Store on iPod touch.
Download the content: Tap . You can find the download in Library and watch it even when iPod touch isn’t connected to the Internet.
Control the playback in the Apple TV app
During playback, tap the screen to show the controls.
Play | |||||||||||
Pause | |||||||||||
Skip backward 15 seconds; touch and hold to rewind | |||||||||||
Skip forward 15 seconds; touch and hold to fast-forward | |||||||||||
Change the aspect ratio; if you don’t see the scaling control, the video already fits the screen perfectly | |||||||||||
Display subtitles and closed captions (not available for all content) | |||||||||||
Stop playback |
To customize the appearance of subtitles and closed captions, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioning > Style.
Change the Apple TV app settings
Go to Settings > TV.
Do any of the following:
Choose the video quality: Tap iTunes Videos, tap Playback Quality, then choose Best Available or Good.
High-quality playback requires a faster Internet connection and uses more data.
Update your recommendations and Up Next queue based on what you watch on your iPod touch: Turn on Use Play History.
What you watch on your iPod touch affects your personalized recommendations and Up Next on all your devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.
Remove a download
Tap Library, then tap Downloaded.
Swipe left on the item you want to remove, then tap Delete.
Removing content from iPod touch doesn’t delete it from your purchases in iCloud or from your iTunes library on your computer. You can download the content to iPod touch again later.