iPod touch User Guide
- iPod touch User Guide
- What’s new in iOS 13
- Your iPod touch
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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 on the Home screen
- 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
- View and organize Today View
- 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 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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- Restart iPod touch
- Force restart iPod touch
- Update iOS
- Back up iPod touch
- Return iPod touch settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away your iPod touch
- Erase all content and settings
- Restore iPod touch to factory settings
- Install or remove configuration profiles
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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 Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- 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
Add music to iPod touch and listen offline
In the Music app 
, Apple Music subscribers can add and download songs and videos. Music you add to iPod touch can be streamed when you have an Internet connection. To play music when you’re not connected to the Internet, you must first download it.
Add music from Apple Music to your library
Do any of the following:
Touch and hold a song, album, playlist, or video, then tap Add to Library.
When viewing the contents of an album or playlist, tap Add to add the album or playlist, or tap
to add individual songs.On the Now Playing screen, tap
, then tap Add to Library.
To delete music from the library, touch and hold the song, album, playlist, or music video, then tap Delete from Library.
Music you add to iPod touch is also added to other devices where you’re signed in to the iTunes Store and App Store using the same Apple ID and have iCloud Music Library turned on (go to Settings 
, then tap Music).
Add music to a playlist
Touch and hold an album, playlist, song, or music video.
Tap Add to a Playlist, then choose a playlist.
Download music from Apple Music to your iPod touch
Download a song, album or playlist: Tap
after adding music.Note: You must turn on Sync Library to download music from Apple Music to your library (go to Settings
> Music, then turn on Sync Library).Always download music: Go to Settings > Music, then turn on Automatic Downloads.
Songs you add are automatically downloaded to iPod touch.
See download progress: On the Library screen, tap Downloaded Music, then tap Downloading.
Manage storage space
Free up music storage: If iPod touch is low on storage space, you can automatically remove downloaded music that you haven’t played in a while. Go to Settings
> Music > Optimize Storage.Remove music and videos stored on iPod touch: Touch and hold a song, album, playlist, music video, TV show, or movie that you’ve downloaded. Tap Remove, then tap Remove Downloads.
The item is removed from iPod touch, but not from iCloud Music Library.
Remove all songs or certain artists from iPod touch: Go to Settings > Music > Downloaded Music, tap Edit, then tap
next to All Songs or the artists whose music you want to delete.