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
Get driving directions in Maps on iPod touch
In the Maps app , you can get detailed driving directions to your destination.
Note: Turn-by-turn spoken directions are not available in all countries or regions. See the iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability website.
Get directions for driving
Do one of the following:
Say something like “Hey Siri, give me driving directions home.” Learn how to ask Siri.
Tap your destination (such as a search result in Maps or a landmark on a map), or touch and hold anywhere on the map, then tap the directions button.
When a suggested route appears, you can do any of the following:
View a route’s directions in a list: On the route card, tap the route’s estimated travel time so that the route appears at the top of the card, then tap the estimated travel time again. This list is especially helpful if you know you’ll lose your internet connection on your route, because you can refer to these directions even after you lose your connection.
To share the directions, scroll to the bottom of the card, then tap Share.
Switch to driving directions: If driving isn’t your default mode of travel or if you’re viewing a transit map, tap to see a suggested driving route.
Choose a future departure or arrival time: Tap Leaving Now (near the top of the route card), select a time or date for departure or arrival, then tap Done. The estimated travel time may change based on predicted traffic.
Avoid tolls or highways: Scroll to the bottom of the route card, then turn on an option.
Choose other route options: You can reverse the starting point and destination, select a different starting point or destination, and more. See Select other route options.
Tap Go for the route you want.
While following the route, you can share your ETA, turn off spoken directions, find a place to stop, and more. See Things you can do while following a route in Maps on iPod touch.
Report traffic incidents
In select regions and countries, you can report accidents, hazards, speed checks, and road work (features vary by region and country).
Siri: Say something like:
“Report an accident”
“There’s something on the road”
“There’s a speed check here”
Or without asking Siri, you can do the following:
When following turn-by-turn driving directions: Tap the route card at the bottom of the screen, tap Report an Incident, then choose an option.
When not following directions: Tap your picture or initials next to the search field, then tap Reports, tap Report an Incident, then choose an option.
If you don’t see your picture or initials, tap Cancel next to the search field, or tap the search field, then tap Cancel.
Apple evaluates incoming incident reports. When there’s a high level of confidence in the reports, incident markers—such as for hazards and accidents —are displayed in Maps for other users too.
Note: Speed checks, where supported, are not displayed with incident markers. Instead, notifications for speed checks appear when you follow turn-by-turn directions.
Report on the status of a hazard or accident
A map may display hazard and accident markers. When you’re near the incidents in select countries or regions, you can report whether they cleared.
Siri: Say something like: “The hazard is gone” or “Clear the accident.” Learn how to ask Siri.
Or without asking Siri, you can do the following:
Tap the incident marker.
Tap Cleared or Still Here.
Apple evaluates incoming incident reports. When there’s a high level of confidence in reports that an incident has been cleared, its marker is removed from Maps.
Note: You can’t clear reports of speed checks.
Find your parked car
When you disconnect iPod touch from your car’s Bluetooth system and exit your vehicle, a parked car marker is dropped in Maps so you can easily find the way back to your car.
To find your car, choose Parked Car below Siri Suggestions on the search card.
To turn parking location off, go to Settings > Maps, then turn off Show Parked Location.
Show or hide the compass or the speed limit
Go to Settings > Maps, tap Driving (below Directions), then turn Compass or Speed Limit on or off.