Chapter 7

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)

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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

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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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