iPod touch User Guide
- Welcome
- Your iPod touch
- What’s new in iOS 15
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- Calculator
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- Set up FaceTime
- Make and receive calls
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Use other apps during a call
- Make a Group FaceTime call
- View participants in a grid
- Use SharePlay to watch and listen together
- Share your screen
- Change the video settings
- Change the audio settings
- Add camera effects
- Leave a call or switch to Messages
- Block unwanted callers
- Magnifier
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- View maps
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- Search for places
- Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
- Get information about places
- Mark places
- Share places
- Rate places
- Save favorite places
- Explore new places with Guides
- Organize places in My Guides
- Get traffic and weather info
- Delete significant locations
- Quickly find your Maps settings
- Get rides
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- View photos
- Play videos and slideshows
- Delete and hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Trim video length and adjust slow motion
- Edit Live Photos
- Make photo albums
- Edit and organize albums
- Filter and sort photos in an album
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View photos and videos shared with you
- View Memories
- Personalize memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
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- Make and receive phone calls
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Wirelessly stream video, photos, and audio to Mac
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPod touch and other devices
- Connect iPod touch and your computer with a cable
- Sync iPod touch with your computer
- Transfer files between iPod touch and your computer
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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 for images and videos
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Use built-in security and privacy protections
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- Control access to information in apps
- Control access to hardware features
- Control app tracking permissions on iPod touch
- Control the location information you share
- Turn on iCloud Private Relay
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Use a private network address
- Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
- Copyright
Listen to audio stories on iPod touch
If you subscribe to Apple News+, you can listen to audio versions of select stories in the News app .
Note: Apple News, Apple News+, and the audio feature aren’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.
Browse audio stories
Tap to see Apple News+ audio stories and Apple News Today. Subscribers see the following headings:
Up Next: Stories you’re currently listening to or have added to the Up Next queue.
For You: Stories recommended to you based on your interests.
Recently Played: Stories you’ve listened to.
To learn more about a story before listening to it, tap See Details.
To browse all audio stories, scroll to the end of For You, then tap See All Audio Stories. You can browse all stories, or stories organized by category—News & Politics, Arts & Culture, and Lifestyle, for example.
If you’re not an Apple News+ subscriber, previews of audio stories appear under Previews For You.
Play audio stories
Tap , then tap a story.
For more playback controls, tap the mini player at the bottom to open the full-screen player.
To return to the mini player, swipe down to minimize the full-screen player.
To close the full-screen player, tap , then tap Close Audio Player. To close the mini player, touch and hold the player, then tap Close Audio Player.
Audio stories can also appear in a feed. Tap a story to read it. To listen to the story, tap Listen at the top of the story (Apple News+ subscription required). If you’re not a subscriber, you can listen to a preview of the story.
Use any of the following controls:
Control
Description
Play
Pause
Next story
Jump back 15 seconds
Choose a faster or slower playback speed
Choose more actions such as place a story next or last in the queue, read a story, or share it
Add stories to Up Next
Tap , then do one of the following:
Tap next to a story from For You, then choose Play Next or Play Last.
Touch and hold a story, then tap Play Next to play the story right after the currently playing story. Tap Play Last to add the story to the end of the queue.
Touch and hold , then drag stories to reorder them in your Up Next queue.
Note: By default, if you’re an Apple News+ subscriber, audio stories in your queue are automatically downloaded when iPod touch is plugged into power, has sufficient storage space, and is connected to Wi-Fi. If you don’t want them to download automatically, go to Settings > News, then turn off Download Audio.
Read, share, and remove audio stories
When browsing a list of audio stories, touch and hold a story to see options for reading, sharing, removing, and more.
Some of these options are also available when you swipe left or right on a story.
When listening to a story, open the full-screen player, then tap to see a list of similar options.