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
Adjust the display settings on iPod touch
If you have color blindness, motion sensitivity, or other vision challenges, you can customize the display settings to make the screen easier to see.
Use display accommodations
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations.Adjust any of the following controls:
Invert Colors: Choose Smart Invert or Classic Invert. Or use accessibility shortcuts. Smart Invert Colors reverses the colors of the display, except for images, media, and some apps that use dark color styles.
Color Filters: Then turn on Color Filters or use accessibility shortcuts. Tap a filter to apply it. To adjust the intensity or hue, drag the sliders.
Reduce White Point: This setting reduces the intensity of bright colors.
You can also apply these effects to only the contents of the zoom window. See Zoom in on the iPod touch screen.
Enhance text and buttons
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility.Adjust any of the following controls:
Larger Text: Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes, then adjust the text size using the Font Size slider.
iPod touch adjusts to your preferred text size in apps that support Dynamic Type, such as Settings, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes.
Bold Text: This setting requires restarting your iPod touch.
Button Shapes: This setting underlines text you can tap.
On/Off Labels: This setting indicates switches turned on with “1” and switches turned off with “0”.
Increase contrast and reduce transparency
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility.Adjust any of the following controls:
Increase Contrast: This setting improves the contrast and legibility by altering color and text styling.
Apps that support Dynamic Type—such as Settings, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes—adjust to your preferred text size.
Reduce Transparency: This setting reduces the transparency and blurs on some backgrounds.
Reduce motion
If you have sensitivity to motion effects or screen movement on your iPod touch, you can stop or reduce the movement of some screen elements, such as:
Parallax effect of wallpaper, apps, and alerts
Screen transitions
Siri animations
Typing autocompletion
Animated effects in Messages
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion, then turn on Reduce Motion.To prevent iPod touch from automatically playing bubble and full-screen effects in Messages, turn off Auto-Play Message Effects.
To manually play effects in Messages, tap Replay below the message bubble.