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
Listen to podcasts on iPod touch
In the Podcasts app 
, you can play an episode, listen to an episode when you’re offline, set a sleep timer, and use the playback controls.
Ask Siri. Say something like: “Play the newest episode of ‘The Daily’ podcast.” Learn how to ask Siri.
Play a podcast
Tap an episode.
To pick up where you left off in a show or resume playing a previous episode, tap Listen Now, then scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap an episode below Recently Played.
Tip: To jump to a specific time in the episode, drag the slider below the show’s artwork.
Set a sleep timer
You can set a sleep timer so that playback stops automatically after a specified period of time.
Tap the player at the bottom of the screen to open the Now Playing screen.
Scroll up on the Now Playing screen, tap Sleep Timer, then choose an option.
Use the playback controls
Open the Now Playing screen, then use any of the following controls.
Control | Description | ||||||||||
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 | Play | ||||||||||
 | Pause | ||||||||||
 | Jump back 15 seconds To change the number of seconds you skip back, go to Settings > Podcasts, then tap Back. | ||||||||||
 | Jump forward 30 seconds To change the number of seconds you skip forward, go to Settings > Podcasts, then tap Forward. | ||||||||||
 | Choose a faster or slower playback speed | ||||||||||
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 | Choose more actions such as sharing or downloading the episode | ||||||||||