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
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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
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- Use Siri, Maps, and the Maps widget to get directions
- Select other route options
- Things you can do while following a route
- Get driving directions
- Report traffic incidents in Maps on iPod touch
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Delete recent directions
- Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
- 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
- Watch memories
- Personalize memories
- Find people in Photos
- Show a person or place less often
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Browse the web
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Search for websites
- Use tabs in Safari
- Bookmark favorite webpages
- Save pages to a Reading List
- View links shared with you
- Automatically fill in forms
- Get extensions
- Hide ads and distractions
- Browse the web privately
- Clear your cache
- Use Hide My Email
- 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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- Keep your Apple ID secure
- Sign in with Apple
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Share passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Manage two-factor authentication for your Apple ID
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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
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Read books in the Books app on iPod touch
In the Books app , use the Reading Now and Library tabs at the bottom of the screen to see the books you’re reading, the books you want to read, your book collections, and more.
Reading Now: Tap to access the books and audiobooks you’re currently reading. Scroll down to see books and audiobooks you’ve added to your Want To Read collection and books you’ve sampled. You can also set daily reading goals and keep track of the books you finish throughout the year.
Library: Tap to see all of the books, audiobooks, series, and PDFs you got from the Book Store or manually added to your library. You can tap Collections to see your books sorted into collections, such as Want to Read, My Samples, Audiobooks, and Finished.
![The Reading Now screen in the Books app. At the bottom of the screen are, from left to right, the Reading Now, Library, Book Store, Audiobooks and Search tabs.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6222428998C2CE34C75A5252/6222428C98C2CE34C75A527C/en_US/403409d03f9366edadc8089154730fc1.png)
Read a book
Tap Reading Now or Library, then tap a cover to open a book. Use gestures and controls to navigate as follows:
Turn the page: Tap the right side of the page or swipe right to left.
Go back to the previous page: Tap the left side of the page or swipe left to right.
Go to a specific page: Tap the page and move the slider at the bottom of the screen left or right. Or, tap
and enter a page number, then tap the page number in the search results.
Close a book: Tap the center of the page to show the controls, then tap
.
![The page of a book open in the Books app with buttons at the top of the screen, from left to right, for closing the book, viewing the table of contents, changing the text, searching, and bookmarking. There’s a slider at the bottom of the screen.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6222428998C2CE34C75A5252/6222428C98C2CE34C75A527C/en_US/ebe2a40288127db9136668fd60c5a2c7.png)
When you finish a book, personalized recommendations appear to help you discover your next read.
Change text and display appearance
Tap the page, tap , then do any of the following:
Adjust the screen brightness: Drag the slider left or right.
Change the font size: Tap the large A to increase the font size or tap the small A to decrease it.
Change the font: Tap Fonts to choose a different font.
Change the page background color: Tap a circle.
Turn off pagination: Turn Vertical Scrolling on to scroll continuously through a book or PDF.
![The appearance menu showing controls for, from top to bottom, brightness, font size, font, page color, and scrolling view.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6222428998C2CE34C75A5252/6222428C98C2CE34C75A527C/en_US/279cdd1db19f534170e137e84097e73c.png)
Bookmark a page
When you close a book, your place is saved automatically—you don’t need to add a bookmark. Bookmark pages you want to return to again.
Tap to add a bookmark; tap it again to remove the bookmark.
To see all your bookmarks, tap , then tap Bookmarks.
Highlight or underline text
Touch and hold a word, then move the grab points to adjust the selection.
Tap Highlight, then tap
to choose a highlight color or to underline.
To remove a highlight or underline, tap the text, then tap
.
To see all of your highlights, tap , then tap Notes.
Add a note
Touch and hold a word, then move the grab points to adjust the selection.
Tap Note, use the keyboard to enter text, then tap Done.
To see all of your notes, tap , then tap Notes. Swipe left on a note to delete it.
Share a selection
You can send text selections using AirDrop, Mail, or Messages, or you can add the selection to Notes. If the book is from the Book Store, a link to the book is included with the selection. (Sharing may not be available in all countries or regions.)
Touch and hold a word, then move the grab points to adjust the selection.
Tap Share, then choose a method.
You can also send a link to view the book in the Book Store. Tap any page, tap , then tap
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Access your books on all your devices
To keep your Books information updated across your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, sign with the same Apple ID on each device, then do the following:
Sync Reading position, bookmarks, notes, and highlights: Go to Settings
> [your name] > iCloud, then turn on both iCloud Drive and Books.
Sync Reading Now, Library, and collections: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud, and turn on both iCloud Drive and Books. Then go to Settings > Books, and turn on Reading Now.
Access your books on your Mac
To see your books, audiobooks, and PDFs on your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then do one of the following:
macOS 10.15 or later: Open System Preferences, click Apple ID, select iCloud in the sidebar, then select iCloud Drive. Click Options, then select Books.
macOS 10.14 or earlier: Open System Preferences, click iCloud, then select iCloud Drive. Click Options, then select Books.
To see your collections, bookmarks, notes, and highlights on your Mac, choose Books > Preferences, click General, then select “Sync collections, bookmarks, and highlights across devices.”