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
Access features from the iPod touch Lock screen
The Lock screen, which shows the current time and date and your most recent notifications, appears when you turn on or wake iPod touch. From the Lock screen, you can see notifications, open Camera and Control Center, get information from your favorite apps at a glance, and more.
Access features and information from the Lock screen
You can quickly access the features and information you need most from the Lock screen, even while iPod touch is locked. From the Lock screen, do any of the following:
Open Camera: Swipe left. (See Take photos with the camera on iPod touch.)
Open Control Center: Swipe up from the bottom edge. (See Use and customize Control Center on iPod touch.)
See earlier notifications: Swipe up from the center. (See View and respond to notifications on iPod touch.)
See Today View: Swipe right. (See View and organize Today View on iPod touch.)
To choose what you can access from the Lock screen, see Change access to items when iPod touch is locked.
Show notification previews on the Lock screen
Go to Settings
> Notifications.Tap Show Previews, then tap Always.
Notification previews include text from Messages, lines from Mail messages, and details about Calendar invitations. See View and respond to notifications on iPod touch.