
iPod touch
Chapter 7
Settings
Wi-Fi
Brightness
General
Music
Video
Photos
Mail
Safari
Contacts
Restoring or Transferring Your iPod touch Settings \
Settings
Tap Settings to adjust iPod touch settings.
Settings allows you to customize iPod touch applications, set the date and time,
configure Wi-Fi connections, and enter other preferences for iPod touch.
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi settings determine when and how iPod touch joins a Wi-Fi network.
Turn Wi-Fi on or off
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Choose Wi-Fi and turn Wi-Fi on or off.
Join a Wi-Fi network
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Choose Wi-Fi, wait a moment as iPod touch detects networks in range, then select a
network. If necessary, enter the password and tap Join. (Networks that require a
password appear with a lock icon.)
Once you’ve joined a Wi-Fi network manually, iPod touch automatically joins it
whenever the network is in range. If more than one previously used network is in
range, iPod touch joins the one last used.
When iPod touch is joined to a Wi-Fi network, the Wi-Fi icon
in the status bar at the
top of the screen shows signal strength. The more bars you see, the stronger the signal.
Set iPod touch to ask if you want to join a new network
This option tells iPod touch to look for another network when you aren’t in range of a
Wi-Fi network you’ve previously joined. iPod touch displays a list of all available Wi-Fi
networks that you can choose from. (Networks that require a password appear with a
lock icon.)
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Choose Wi-Fi and turn “Ask to Join Networks” on or off. If you turn “Ask to Join
Networks” off, you can still join new networks manually.
Forget a network, so iPod touch doesn’t join it automatically
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Choose Wi-Fi and tap
next to a network you’ve joined before. Then tap “Forget this
Network.”
Join a closed Wi-Fi network (an available Wi-Fi network that isn’t shown in the list of
scanned networks)
m
Choose Wi-Fi > Other and enter the network name. If the network requires a password,
tap Security, select the type of security the network uses, and then tap Other Network
and enter the password.
You must already know the network name, password, and security type to connect to a
closed network.
Some Wi-Fi networks may require you to enter or adjust additional settings, such as a
client ID or static IP address. Ask the network administrator which settings to use.
Adjust settings for joining a Wi-Fi network
m
Choose Wi-Fi, then tap next to the network.
Brightness
Screen brightness affects battery life. Dim the screen to extend the time before you
need to recharge iPod touch. Or use Auto-Brightness, which is designed to conserve
battery life.
Adjust the screen brightness
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Choose Brightness and drag the slider.
Set whether iPod touch adjusts screen brightness automatically
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Choose Brightness and turn Auto-Brightness on or off. If Auto-Brightness is on,
iPod touch adjusts the screen brightness for current light conditions using the built-in
ambient light sensor.
General
The General settings include date and time, security, and other settings that affect
more than one application. This is also where you can find information about your
iPod touch and reset iPod touch to its original state.
About
Choose General > About to get information about iPod touch, including:
number of songs
number of videos
number of photos
total storage capacity Â
storage available
software version
serial number
model number
Wi-Fi address
legal information
Wallpaper
You see a wallpaper background picture when you unlock iPod touch. You can select
one of the images that came with iPod touch, or use a photo you’ve synced to
iPod touch from your computer.
Set wallpaper
Choose General > Wallpaper and choose a picture.
Date and Time
These settings apply to the time shown in the status bar at the top of the screen,
world clocks, and your calendar.
Set whether iPod touch shows 24-hour time or 12-hour time
Choose General > Date & Time and turn 24-Hour Time on or off.
Set the time zone
Choose General > Date & Time > Time Zone and enter your location.
Set the date and time
Choose General > Date & Time > Set Date & Time
Tap a button to select the date or time, then use the spinners to change the setting.
Calendar Settings
Turn on calendar time zone support
Choose General > Date & Time and turn Time Zone Support on. When Time Zone
Support is on, Calendar displays event dates and times in the time zone set for your
calendars. When Time Zone Support is off, Calendar displays events in the time zone of
your current location.
Set calendar time zone
Choose General > Date & Time > Time Zone and enter the time zone of your calendar.
International
Use the International settings to set the language for iPod touch, turn keyboards for
different languages on and off, and set the date, time, and telephone number formats
for your region.
Set the language for iPod touch
Choose General > International > Language, choose the language you want to use, and
tap Done.
Turn international keyboards on or off
You can change the language for your keyboard on iPod touch, or make two or more
keyboards available.
Choose General > International > Keyboards, and turn on the keyboards you want.
If more than one keyboard is turned on, tap
to switch keyboards when you’re
typing. When you tap the symbol, the name of the newly active keyboard appears
briefly.
Set date, time, and telephone number formats
Choose General > International > Region Format, and choose your region.
Auto-Lock
Locking iPod touch turns off the display to save your battery and to prevent
unintended operation of iPod touch.
Set the amount of time before iPod touch locks
Choose General > Auto-Lock and choose a time.
Passcode Lock
By default, iPod touch doesn’t require you to enter a passcode to unlock it.
Set a passcode
Choose General > Passcode Lock and enter a 4-digit passcode. iPod touch then requires
you to enter the passcode to unlock it.
Turn passcode lock off
Choose General > Passcode Lock and tap Turn Passcode Off, then enter your passcode.
Change the passcode
Choose General > Passcode Lock and tap Change Passcode, enter the current passcode,
then enter and reenter your new passcode.
If you forget your passcode, you must restore the iPod touch software. See page 89.
Set how long before your passcode is required
Choose General > Passcode Lock > Require Passcode, then select how long iPod touch
can be locked before you need to enter a passcode to unlock it
Sound Effects
iPod touch can play sound effects when you:
have an appointment
lock or unlock iPod touch
type on the keyboard
Turn sound effects on or off
Choose General > Sound Effects and select whether you want sound effects to play
over the internal speaker, through the headphones, or both. Select Off to turn sound
effects off.
Keyboard
Turn auto-capitalization on or off
By default, iPod touch automatically capitalizes the next word after you type sentence-
ending punctuation or a return character.
Choose General > Keyboard and turn Auto-Capitalization on or off.
Set whether caps lock is enabled
If caps lock is enabled and you double-tap the Shift
key on the keyboard, all letters
you type are uppercase. The Shift key turns blue when caps lock is on.
Choose General > Keyboard and turn Enable Caps Lock on or off.
Turn “.” shortcut on or off
The “.” shortcut lets you double-tap the space bar to enter a period followed by a space
when you’re typing. It is on by default.
Choose General > Keyboard and turn “.” Shortcut on or off.
Turn international keyboards on or off
You can change the language for your keyboard on iPod touch, or make two or more
keyboards available.
Choose General > Keyboards > International Keyboards and turn on the keyboards
you want.
If more than one keyboard is turned on, tap
to switch keyboards when you’re typing.
When you tap the symbol, the name of the newly active keyboard appears briefly.
Resetting iPod touch Settings
Reset all settings
Choose General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Data (such as your contacts and calendars)
and media (such as your songs and videos) are not deleted.
Erase all content and settings
Choose General > Reset and tap “Erase All Content and Settings.”
All your data and media are deleted. You must sync iPod touch with your computer to
restore contacts, songs, videos, and other data and media.
Reset the keyboard dictionary
Choose General > Reset and tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary.
You add words to the keyboard dictionary by rejecting words iPod touch suggests as
you type. Tap a word to reject the correction and add the word to the keyboard
dictionary. Resetting the keyboard dictionary erases all words you’ve added.
Reset network settings
Choose General > Reset and tap Reset Network Settings.
When you reset network settings, your list of previously used networks is removed.
Wi-Fi is turned off and then back on (disconnecting you from any network you’re on),
and the “Ask to Join Networks” setting is turned on.
Music
The Music settings apply to songs, podcasts, and audiobooks.
Set iTunes to play songs at the same sound level
iTunes can automatically adjust the volume of songs, so they play at the same relative
volume level.
In iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences if you’re using a Mac, or Edit > Preferences if
you’re using a PC, then click Playback and select Sound Check.
You can set iPod touch to use the iTunes volume settings.
Set iPod touch to use the iTunes volume settings (Sound Check)
Choose Music and turn Sound Check on.
Set audiobook play speed
You can set audiobooks to play faster than normal so you can hear them more quickly,
or slower so you can hear them more clearly.
Choose Music > Audiobook Speed, then choose Slower, Normal, or Faster.
Use the equalizer to change the sound on iPod touch to suit a particular sound
or style Choose Music > EQ and choose a setting.
Set a volume limit for music and videos
Choose Music > Volume Limit and drag the slider to adjust the maximum volume.
Tap Lock Volume Limit to assign a code to prevent the setting from being change
Setting a volume limit only limits the volume of music (including podcasts and
audiobooks) and videos (including rented movies), and only when headphones,
earphones, or speakers are connected to the headphones port on iPod touch.
WARNING: For important information about avoiding hearing loss, see the Important
Product Information Guide at www.apple.com/support/manuals/ipod.
Video
Video settings apply to apply to video content (including rented movies). You can set
where to resume playing videos that you previously started, turn closed captioning on
or off, and set up iPod touch to play videos on your TV.
Set where to resume playing
Choose Video > Start Playing, then select whether you want videos that you previously
started watching to resume playing from the beginning or where you left off.
Turn closed captioning on or off
Choose Video and turn Closed Captioning on or off.
TV Out Settings
Use these settings to set up how iPod touch plays videos on your TV. For more
information about using iPod touch to play videos on your TV, see “Watching Videos on
a TV Connected to iPod touch” on page 32.
Turn widescreen on or off
Choose Video and turn Widescreen on or off.
Set TV signal to NTSC or PAL
Choose Video > TV Signal and select NTSC or PAL.
NTSC and PAL are TV broadcast standards. NTSC displays 480i and PAL displays 576i.
Your TV might use either of these, depending on where it was sold. If you’re not sure
which to use, check the documentation that came with your TV.
Photos
Photos settings let you specify how slideshows display your photos.
Set the length of time each slide is shown
Choose Photos > Play Each Slide For and select the length of time.
Set transition effect
Choose Photos > Transition and select the transition effect.
Set whether to repeat slideshows
Choose Photos and turn Repeat on or off.
Set photos to appear randomly or in order
Choose Settings > Photos and turn Shuffle on or off.
Mail
Use Mail settings to customize your email account for iPod touch. Changes you make
to accounts settings are not synced to your computer, allowing you to configure email
to work with iPod touch without affecting email account settings on your computer.
Account Settings
The specific accounts settings that appear on iPod touch depend on the type of
account you have—POP or IMAP.
Note: Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 email accounts must be configured for IMAP in
order to work with iPod touch.
Stop using an account
Choose Mail, choose an account, then turn Account off.
If an account is off, iPod touch doesn’t display the account and doesn’t send or check
email from that account, until you turn it back on.
Adjust advanced settings
Choose Mail > Accounts, choose an account, then do one of the following:
To set whether drafts, sent messages, and deleted messages are stored on iPod touch or
remotely on your email server (IMAP accounts only), tap Advanced and choose Drafts
Mailbox, Sent Mailbox, or Deleted Mailbox.
If you store messages on iPod touch, you can see them even when iPod touch isn’t connected to the Internet.
To set when deleted messages are removed permanently from iPod touch, tap Advanced
and tap Remove, then choose a time: Never, or after one day, one week, or one
month.
To adjust email server settings, tap Host Name, User Name, or Password under
Incoming Mail Server or Outgoing Mail Server. Ask your network administrator or
Internet service provider for the correct settings.
To adjust SSL and password settings, tap Advanced. Ask your network administrator or
Internet service provider for the correct settings.
Delete an email account from iPod touch
Choose Mail, tap an account, then scroll down and tap Delete Account.
Deleting an email account from iPod touch doesn’t delete it from your computer.
Settings for Email Messages
iPod touch checks for and retrieves new email in your accounts whenever your open
Mail. You can also set Mail to regularly check for email and download your messages
even when you don’t have Mail open.
Set whether iPod touch checks for new messages automatically
Choose Mail > Auto-Check, then tap Manual,“Every 15 minutes,”“Every 30 minutes,”
or “Every hour.”
If you have a Yahoo! email account, email is instantly transferred to iPod touch as it
arrives at the Yahoo! server.
Set the number of messages shown on iPod touch
Choose Mail > Show, then choose a setting. You can choose to see the most recent 25,
50, 75,100, or 200 messages. To download additional messages when you’re in Mail,
scroll to the bottom of your inbox and tap “Download . . . more.”
Set how many lines of each message are previewed in the message list
Choose Mail > Preview, then choose a setting. You can choose to see anywhere from
zero to five lines of each message. That way, you can scan a list of messages in a
mailbox and get an idea of what each message is about. Set a minimum font size for messages
Choose Mail > Minimum Font Size, then choose Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large,
or Giant.
Setting whether iPod touch shows To and Cc labels in message lists
Choose Mail, then turn Show To/Cc Label on or off.
If Show To/Cc Label is on,
To
or
Cc
next to each message in a list indicates whether
the message was sent directly to you or you were Cc’ed.
Setting iPod touch to confirm that you want to delete a message
Choose Mail and turn Ask Before Deleting on or off.
If Ask Before Deleting is on, to delete a message you must tap
, then confirm by
tapping Delete.
Settings for Sending Email
Set whether iPod touch sends you a copy of every message you send
Choose Mail, then turn Always Bcc Myself on or off.
Add a signature to your messages
You can set iPod touch to add a signature—your favorite quote, or your name, title, and
phone number, for example—that appears in every message you send.
Choose Mail > Signature, then type a signature.
Set the default email account
When you initiate sending a message from another iPod touch application, such as
sending a photo from Photos or tapping a business’ email address in Maps, the
message is sent from your default email account.
Choose Mail > Default Account, then choose an account.
Safari
General Settings
You can use Google or Yahoo! to perform Internet searches.
Select a search engine
Choose Safari > Search Engine and select the search engine you want to use.
Security Settings
By default, Safari is set to show some of the features of the web, like some movies,
animation, and web applications. You may wish to turn off some of these features to
help protect iPod touch from possible security risks on the Internet.
Change security settings
Choose Safari, then do one of the following:
To enable or disable JavaScript, turn JavaScript on or off.
JavaScript lets web programmers control elements of the page—for example, a page
that uses JavaScript might display the current date and time or cause a linked page
to appear in a new pop-up page.
To enable or disable plug-ins, turn Plug-ins on or off. Plug-ins allow Safari to play some
types of audio and video files and to display Microsoft Word files and Microsoft Excel
documents.
To block or allow pop-ups, turn Block Pop-ups on or off. Blocking pop-ups stops only
pop-ups that appear when you close a page or open a page by typing its address.
It doesn’t block pop-ups that open when you click a link.
To set whether Safari accepts cookies, tap Accept Cookies and choose Never,
“From visited,” or Always.
A cookie is a piece of information that a website puts on iPod touch so the website
can remember you when you visit again. That way, webpages can be customized for
you based on information you may have provided.
Some pages won’t work correctly unless iPod touch is set to accept cookies.
To clear the history of webpages you’ve visited, tap Clear History.
To clear all cookies from Safari, tap Clear Cookies. To clear the browser cache, tap Clear Cache.
The browser cache stores the content of pages so the pages open faster the next
time you visit them. If a page you open isn’t showing new content, clearing the
cache may help.
Developer Settings
The Debug Console can help you resolve webpage errors. When turned on, the console
appears automatically when a webpage error occurs.
Turn the debug console on or off
Choose Safari > Developer, and turn Debug Console on or off.
Contacts
Use Contacts settings to determine the sort and display order of your contacts.
Set the sort order
Choose Settings > Contacts > Sort Order, and select “First, Last” or “Last, First.”
Set the display order
Choose Settings > Contacts > Display Order, and select “First, Last” or “Last, First.”
Restoring or Transferring Your iPod touch Settings
When you connect iPod touch to your computer, settings on iPod touch are
automatically backed up to your computer. You can restore this information if you need
to—if you get a new iPod touch, for example, and want to transfer your previous
settings to it. You may also want to reset the information on iPod touch if you’re having
trouble connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
Automatically backed-up information includes notes, contact favorites, sound settings,
and other preferences.
Restore or transfer settings
Do one of the following: Connect a new iPod touch to the same computer you used with your other iPod touch,
open iTunes, and follow the onscreen instructions.
Reset the information on iPod touch. In Settings, choose General > Reset, then choose
“Reset All Settings,”“Erase All Content and Settings,” or “Reset Network Settings.”Then
connect iPod touch to your computer, open iTunes, and follow the onscreen
instructions.
When you reset network settings, your list of previously used networks is removed.
Wi-Fi is turned off and then back on, disconnecting you from any network you’re on.
The Wi-Fi and “Ask to Join Networks” settings are left turned on.
Delete a set of backed-up settings
Open iTunes and choose iTunes > Preferences (on a Mac) or Edit > Preferences (on a
PC). Then click Syncing, select an iPod touch, and click “Remove Backup.”
iPod touch doesn’t need to be connected to your computer.
Tips and Troubleshooting
Most problems with iPod touch can be solved quickly by
following the advice in this chapter.
General Suggestions
If the screen is blank or shows a low-battery image
iPod touch is low on power and needs to charge for up to ten minutes before you can
use it. For information about charging iPod touch, see “Charging the Battery” .
or
If iPod touch doesn’t appear in iTunes or you can’t sync iPod touch
The iPod touch battery might need to be recharged. For information about charging
iPod touch, see “Charging the Battery” .
If that doesn’t work, disconnect other USB devices from your computer and connect
iPod touch to a different USB 2.0 port on your computer (not on your keyboard).
If that doesn’t work, turn off iPod touch and turn it on again. Press and hold the
Sleep/Wake button on top of iPod touch for a few seconds until a red slider appears,
then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo
appears.
If that doesn’t work, restart your computer and reconnect iPod touch to your
computer.
If that doesn’t work, download and install (or reinstall) the latest version of iTunes
from www.apple.com/itunes.
If iPod touch won’t turn on, or if the display freezes or doesn’t respond
iPod touch may need charging. See “Charging the Battery” on page 22.
Press and hold the Home
button for at least six seconds, until the application you
were using quits.
If that doesn’t work, turn off iPod touch and turn it on again. Press and hold the
Sleep/Wake button on top of iPod touch for a few seconds until a red slider appears,
and then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple
logo appears.
If that doesn’t work, reset iPod touch. Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button
and the Home
button for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
If iPod touch continues to freeze or not respond after you reset it
Reset iPod touch settings. From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Reset
> Reset All Settings. All your preferences are reset, but your data and media are left
untouched.
If that doesn’t work, erase all content on iPod touch. From the Home screen choose
Settings > General > Reset > “Erase All Content and Settings.” All your preferences
are reset, and all your data and media are removed from iPod touch.
If that doesn’t work, restore the iPod touch software. See “Updating and Restoring
iPod touch Software” on page 89.
If iPod touch isn’t playing sound
Unplug and reconnect the headphones. Make sure the connector is pushed in all
the way.
Make sure the volume isn’t turned down all the way.
Music on iPod touch might be paused. From the Home screen tap Music, tap Now
Playing, then tap
Check to see if a volume limit is set. From the Home screen choose Settings > Music
> Volume Limit. For more information, see page 79.
Make sure you are using iTunes 7.6 or later (go to www.apple.com/itunes). Songs
purchased from the iTunes Store using earlier versions of iTunes won’t play on
iPod touch until you upgrade iTunes.
If you are using the optional dock’s line out port, make sure your stereo or external
speakers are turned on and working properly.
If iPod touch shows a message saying “This accessory is not supported by iPod”
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