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
Back up iPod touch
You can back up iPod touch using iCloud or your computer. To decide which method is best for you, see About backups for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Tip: If you replace your iPod touch, you can use its backup to transfer your information to the new device. See Restore all content to iPod touch from a backup.
Back up iPod touch using iCloud
Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > iCloud Backup.
Turn on iCloud Backup.
iCloud automatically backs up your iPod touch daily when iPod touch is connected to power, locked, and connected to Wi-Fi.
To perform a manual backup, tap Back Up Now.
To view your iCloud backups, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Manage Storage > Backups. To delete a backup, choose a backup from the list, then tap Delete Backup.
Note: If you turn on an iCloud feature (such as iCloud Photos or Contacts) in Settings > [your name] > iCloud, its information is stored in iCloud. Because the information is automatically kept up to date on all your devices, it’s not included in your iCloud backup. (See the Apple Support article What does iCloud back up?)
Back up iPod touch using your Mac
In the Finder sidebar on your Mac, select your iPod touch.
To use the Finder to back up iPod touch, macOS 10.15 or later is required. With earlier versions of macOS, use iTunes to back up iPod touch.
At the top of the Finder window, click General.
Select “Back up all of the data on your iPod touch to this Mac.”
To encrypt your backup data and protect it with a password, select “Encrypt local backup.”
Click Back Up Now.
Note: You can also connect iPod touch to your computer wirelessly if you set up Wi-Fi syncing.
Back up iPod touch using your Windows PC
In the iTunes app on your PC, click the iPod touch button near the top left of the iTunes window.
Click Summary.
Click Back Up Now (below Backups).
To encrypt your backups, select “Encrypt local backup,” type a password, then click Set Password.
To see the backups stored on your computer, choose Edit > Preferences, then click Devices. Encrypted backups have a lock icon in the list of backups.
Note: You can also connect iPod touch to your computer wirelessly if you set up Wi-Fi syncing.