iPod touch User Guide
- iPod touch User Guide
- What’s new in iOS 13
- Your iPod touch
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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 on the Home screen
- 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
- View and organize Today View
- 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 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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- Restart iPod touch
- Force restart iPod touch
- Update iOS
- Back up iPod touch
- Return iPod touch settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell or give away your iPod touch
- Erase all content and settings
- Restore iPod touch to factory settings
- Install or remove configuration profiles
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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 Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- 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
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 iOS devices.
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 on 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.
Back up iPod touch using your Mac
In the Finder sidebar on your Mac, select your iPod touch.
Note: To use the Finder to back up iPod touch, macOS Catalina 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.