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
Watch shows and movies in the Apple TV app on iPod touch
Play shows and movies from the Apple TV app 
on iPod touch. Purchases, rentals, Apple TV+, and Apple TV channels play in the Apple TV app, while content from other providers plays in their video app.
Buy, rent, stream, or download shows and movies
Tap an item to see its details.
Choose any of the following options (not all options are available for all titles):
Watch Apple TV+ or Apple TV channels: Tap Play. If you’re not a current subscriber, tap Try It Free (available for eligible Apple ID accounts) or Subscribe.
Choose a different video app: If the title is available from multiple apps, scroll down to How To Watch, then choose an app.
Buy or rent: Confirm your selection, then complete the payment.
When you rent a movie, you have 30 days to start watching it. After you start watching the movie, you can play it as many times as you want for 48 hours, after which the rental period ends. When the rental period ends, the movie is deleted.
Download: Tap
. You can find the downloaded item in your Library and watch it even when iPod touch isn’t connected to the internet.Pre-order: Review the details, then tap Pre-Order.
When the pre-ordered item becomes available, your payment method is billed, and you receive an email notification. If you turned on automatic downloads, the item is automatically downloaded to your iPod touch.
Note: The availability of Apple Media Services varies by country or region. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Control playback in the Apple TV app
During playback, tap the screen to show the controls.
Control | Description | ||||||||||
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 | 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 (if available) | ||||||||||
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 | Multitask with Picture in Picture; you can continue to watch the video while you use another app | ||||||||||
 | Stop playback | ||||||||||
Change the Apple TV app settings
Go to Settings
> TV.Choose streaming options:
Wi-Fi: Choose High Quality or Data Saver.
High Quality requires a faster internet connection and uses more data.
Choose download options:
Wi-Fi: Choose High Quality or Fast Downloads.
High Quality results in slower downloads and uses more data.
Languages: Choose a language. Each added audio language increases the download size. To remove a language, swipe left on the language you want to remove, then tap Delete.
The default language is the primary language for your country or region. If you turned on Audio Descriptions in Settings > Accessibility, audio descriptions are also downloaded.
To 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 your Apple ID.
Remove a download
Tap Library, then tap Downloaded.
Swipe left on the item you want to remove, then tap Delete.
Removing an item from iPod touch doesn’t delete it from your purchases in iCloud. You can download the item to iPod touch again later.