12-28-07 
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As the iPod touch doesn’t come with a manual we have compiled the ultimate list of tips and tricks for operating and managing your iPod touch with more control:
When you’re scrolling through a long webpage in Safari - if you tap the bar at the top of your screen containing the time and battery, Safari will automatically scroll up to the top of the document/page and the show address bar.
Double clicking the home button in any application, or with the screen off will bring up the music controls.
To completely exit an application to save battery power. Press and holding the home button for approximately 5-8 seconds. This will help boost battery life if you run lots of different apps regularly.
Holding down letters on the keyboard will pop up the accents/symbols associated with those letters. Once it pops up, slide your finger over to the accent/symbol you like.
When you in the Mail apps inbox view, slide your finger from left to right on a message and a ‘delete’ button will appear. This also applies in the list view of the Videos application.
In Safari double tap to zoom in. You can also “pinch” (putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and pinching in and out) to zoom in Safari and in Pictures.
You can charge your iPod Touch from any powered USB port. Such as a computer, printer, media centre.
If your watching a video and want to resume it later tap the “done” button and it will remember the videos progress next time you open it. Same with music/podcasts.
When typing a lot of text in Safari turn it to horizontal view. The keyboard will be bigger and you can get a better grip of the Touch while typing with two thumbs.
When typing if you want to add something from the numbers keyboard just hold down the numbers and slide your finger to the number or symbol you want, and release. It will take you back to your letters keyboard. This also works by holding the ’shift’ key and sliding your finger to apply capital letters.
When viewing a website in Safari, if you want to check the url of a link before clicking it, hold your finger on the link and a bubble will appear showing the URL that the link is tied to.
A quick way to open a link in a new window in Safari is to open a new page, tap the bookmarks icon, tap the history folder and direct yourself to the last page you were just on and open the link from there.
When listening to an audiobook, iTunes and your iPod create a new chapter list unrelated to the subject of the book. It’s accessible using the same control used for viewing audio tracks (upper right of screen).
Make a typo? Press and hold the word you spelt wrong and a magnifying glass will appear. Slide your finger back and forwth to move the cursor.
When typing, if you press the space bar twice after a word it will insert a period and another space.
If you wish to use the horizontal keyboard to chat on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, ICQ, etc. Using Safari go to the site www.meebo.com and use it there.
In Google Maps, double tapping zooms in as expected, but single tapping with two fingers zooms out.
when watching a movie press pause and press foward ( but don’t release it ) this will make your video go slow motion to fast foward just dont press pause beforehand.
Thanks for all the tips! When I exited out of music once, a small gray box appeared with a large volume icon box appeared and had a slider with boxes to change the volume. This was NOT the double-tap home button menu. I’ve been trying to figure out the shortcut for this, but so far I haven’t seen it again. Can you help me?
Thanks,
Cory Wilson
An excelent tip for Ipod touch or ipod phones.
I have found that by wrapping a clean cloth around my finger it avoids finger marks and grease marks on my ipod touch screen. One could make a cloth finger sleeve or cloth thimble to use as an add on for the ipod touch or iphone.
Thank You! These tips are incredibly appriciated. Lets keep em going.
yes cory, I’m having the same trouble as you. I got it earlier today. If you find out please tell
hi cory. Been on youtube, just type in iPod touch volume. It seems to be that when you are adjusting the volume then press home it does that. I think that the funny volume thing is there for when you use the contrller when its in the dock so that its easier to when you are far away from it.
Ryan
Thanks a ton a lot of good info helped alot!!!
A single press of the power button whilst using the Touch will power off the screen and lock the iPod but continue to play music etc…just press the home key to resume the screen. Saves accidental pressing and saves power!
If you’ve used my previous tip regarding ’standby mode’ try this - whilst at black screen but listening to music, double press the home button to bring up music controls without unlocking the Touch. Just hit the power button again to send back to standby (or wait 1 minute and it will return to standby regardless of auto-lock timeout).
hey how do you get the spelling thing off when you are typing?
To get that box, double tap the home button on the bottom of the touch. It has back, skip, pause, and volume control, and can be used from any app, or so the directions claim…
Thank you, these tips have been really helpfull, thank you
If you click and hold on a image it will apper with a box saying save image or go to link
Hope this helps
if youre on the home screen, tap on an item and hold it….each item on your home screen with start to wiggle and you will have an option to delete installed apps…i found this one useful cause i did not have to connect my ipod touch to the computer to do so…
Are there are any tips on restoring the ipod touch? Mine crashed after trying to upgrade the ipod software and now when trying to restore, it grinds to a halt and comes up with a different error code on every occassion. Help
Thank you so much! I just got myself the iPod touch for my 18th birthday… I was frustrated with a couple of things , but not anymore!
If you press the Home button and the power button at the same time, Your screen will flash and a camera shutter sound will be heard. A screenshot of whatever you were doing on your iPod will be saved under Photos in Saved Photos.
=D
I wanna update my iPod but I wanna keep mypics on a diffrent computer n put new ones on as should I do ??
if you hold the home button and tap the sleep button it will take a pix of whatever is on the screen and put it in pour pictures
please help! i was given an ipod touch for birthday gift, but it does not want to conect to the internet, it does catches modems nearby, but i try to conect and it keeps on saying that it is not possible to conect to the internet.. please help, does it matter if i live in Mexico?
if you press the power button and home button at the same time it takes a photo of the screen your in this is then saved in your photos.
Good tips. Just having one problem with my touch. When i import some albums to my i-tunes i cant always get the album cover from i-tunes, anyone got any clue hoe i can get the cover pics on there?? Cheers
if you hit the home buten and power buten it will take a pic of wat on screen
I have a iPod touch 2.0.2 and I tried to download an app but it ketp on coming up download can not be recived my passwords right what’s worng with my iPod. All help needed. Relyp to email. Thx
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Those people (cory wilson….) and others that were asking about the music icon box. If you touch the volume control button on the side of the ipod it will bring up the volume icon box. Hope that is the answer you are looking for.
Haha i was just going to say that.
i heard you could put a picture as the background on the home screen as well as the wake screen. it said something about turning off the theme in the summerboard settings? idk what that meant. so if anyone could help
To Hexxys:
You have a 2nd generation iPod touch, and Cory Wilson has a 1st generation, so Cory doesn’t have the volume rocker on the side, but you do. The reason the grey box shows, Cory, is because it’s in the 1st generation’s code, but it’s never used because the 1st generation has no volume rocker.
also if you press the top button then the home button really quick it print screens whatever your on and saves it in ur picz
if you click the home button and the power/lock button at the same time your phone/iPod will take a screen shot and save it in pictures for later use
If anyone wants to see what any application is like before buying/installing it, you should check it TheIpodKid on YouTube. This guy covers nearly all the new apps that are being released and reviews each 1.
Hope That Helps..
- Matt
I need help my ipod touch just decides to stop in the middle of music and go iddle or back to main menu. Any ideas?
notable milieu. So also gaol!
Hey quick tip I just learned maybe everyone else already knew this but hey why not share. If you hit the power button and home button together for a brief second it will take a capture of the screen that is currently shown:-)
-Bob
Thanks for the tips, great help.
I had problems connecting my Touch to the internet. Solved it by going into the control page for my netgear router (don’t know if this bis unique to this make) then put in the mac code fot the Touch (its in Settings/general/wifi on the Touch) save this and then try to reconnect. The Touch will ask for your wep key for your router, enter this and you should be connected.
I want to change the background on the main screen but I can’t figure out how to do it. I go to the settings and it changes the background on the lock page but t won’t change it for the main screen. So could you tell me how to do that.
I Have Exactly The Same Problem As israel , Please Help !!!
How do you find out your password for the internet? I really want to go on the internet on my ipod touch but i dont know the password, please help xx
Great tips but Derek…you sad twat…that HAS to be a joke, surely? The thimble thing… LOL.
@ Jay
You may already have found the answer yourself Jay but if you right click on the album without any art in i-tunes, then select the “artwork” tab, you can add a jpeg/bmp/png file as an album cover. Don’t forget to re-synch though.
You can also edit album or song info in the same way.
I have another tip:
To take a screenshot on the ipod touch, press the power button and home button at the same time.
hey
ok so my sound just stopped working all together, includind headphones and main speaker (i have second gen) and I don’t know why, and I have checked the settings already
also if you try to open apps you have gotten from the app store and it just shuts right away (including Internet) just get any free app, you can delete it after
great tips, but i already knew half of them, heres another tip if u want to take an on-screen pic on your touch, press the sleep/wake button and the home button at the same time to take a screen shot. it automaticly saves the pic to saved pictures.
hey this is awesome. what is all the talk of a cory wilson. lol i totally know a cory wilson. he does yearbook at my school. anyway these were super helpful! thanks!
I play this online game & I have to download adobe flash player 10,but it says “safari can not download” why is this happening?!?!?!?!?!
i bought lots of songs on my ipod touch on christmas day when i plugged my ipod in to my lap top to add music from my itunes site all the songs i had bought moved from my ipod to my lap top i have tried since christmas to get the songs back to my ipod but they won,t go. i have uploaded cd’s and they have gone to my ipod no problem only the songs i bought direct from my ipod won’t go back on HELP ME PLEASE SOMEONE MUST KNOW WHAT TO DO
Question: When I sync my ipod touch with itunes it adds songs in duplicate. How do I stop this from happening?
Cory wilson. When you double click the home button, a boc appears witha fastforward, rewind, pause/play and volume button. If you slide the volume button back and forth while double clicking the home button, the icon you described will appear. This happened to me and i tried many different things to firgur it out. Now when i try it, his shortcut only works some of the time. Also, with the built in volume key, the ipod 3G has this when you change the volume with the volume key.
Naaaa you can’t charge it with ANY USB port. I tried it with a PS2 and it didn’t work. Worked with the Xbox though.
hii ,,,
im reli stuck about getin my wifi on my ipod touch working…
i cant find…
my…
” router” “client id ” and ” search domain” …
What are dey.. n how do i no dem?
if you push together the home button and lock button at the same time it maked a print screen and it comes up in pictures lol
Oh my Gosh guys. For all those people with questions like “y cant i connect to internet?” or “What’s the password?” You can’t steal other people’s Wi-Fi. That’s why they have passwords. You can’t connect with the Internet because you didn’t pay for it and you DON’T know the password. Geez, if you want T3H INTERNETZ so badly, buy a Wi-Fi device. Sheesh.
awesome tips. something it doesn’t tell you though is how to take a pic of the page your on. press and hold the home button and while holding it pres the power button on top.
I use my ipod while playing WOW. The tips came in very handy for ö and ä. Thanks u guys rock!!!!!
Okay, so, I’ve been on the internet with my ipos and it works. I have wireless connection so I just go on it when I’m in my bed or something. I was on it this morning and all of a sudden, it says it can not connect because it could not find the server. When I check the signal, it says I was still connected to my wireless connection and I had the three bars and everything. I waited all day because I thought maybe it was just a temperary thing but hours it still wont connect back. It just…stopped working. I would like a possible answer to why this happened or at least theories. Is it possible that by browsing a certain site that it made it messed up? :S
I would really like some help, because I’m confused at the fact that it suddenly stopped working while I was using it and how I can not use it even though it shows I am still connected.
Hmm… I see no one else covered this yet, but if you press the sleep/power button and the home button at the same time, it will take a screen shot of whatever you are doing at the moment.
Seriously, I am the first person to report this, right? (/me waits for yet another person to post this tip after me.)
Jess, I had the same problem, & I do pay for it-I found I hadn’t scrolled thru all the settings pages & once I did, I could connect to the internet. I’d just gotten my iPod touch for Christmas, & am still learning too.
Hey you guys.. if you snap the iPod into 3 long peices, you can put them up your bum and make it hurt
also, if you have iPhone you could use the vibrating feature :O
and enough of the printscreen tip.. read the other comments before you put that up here.
My iPod touch ain’t touch screen I gotta control it by an ok asz remote in sometimes when I’m sleep my iPod passes gas outta no where (BOY DONT IT STANK)in my iPod got a penis problem in when j wake up in da morning it smell like old asz bus seats
Does noone realize how many times people have commented about the iPod can do screen shots LOL you people repeat what others have said too much. Did you know you can controll your screen with your tongue! Now that’s genius! XD
Cory , its not complicated .. Genuis .. You go your ipod screen where the calculator and safari and everything is . And simple double click on the round button with the white square in it twice .very fast though . And a small screen will appear saying music , and you know that volume bar that you slide for higher or lower volume its so easy …. Not roket science man
if you throw ur ipod on the floor you see some pretty sparks
Does anyone know if you can take a snapshot of whatever is on the screen and maybe save it? That would be neat.
Heey people did you know that you can take pictures on your iPod touch well here’s how you hold the top button that you would use to turn the power off and then press the home button then a flash should go and then go to photos and the picture that you took will be there. Hope you enjoyed this indvice thanks and bye
hey….
today i was at school listening to music on my ipod touch but then later when i was going home i was going to listen to my touch and i noticed that my ipod couldnt sense my finger touching it but i could still turn it on, the only problem is that it doesnt sense my finger no matter where i touch it.
so is there any way i can fix this problem, please someone help me………..
As an answer to the person asking about turning auto correction off, if you go to settings>general>keyboard, from there you can turn a bunch of stuff on/off,including auto correction caps lock and auto capitalization, hope that helps
hey. okay so everyone is saying that you can t ake a picture with the home screen and then lock button. can you take a picture of the age that says slide to unlock because mine wont…any tips?
also does anyone know any fun free apps?
In addition to the home/power button screen capture.. when you plug the iPod in to your computer (well on my vista pc anyway), it will recognise it as a digital camara an you can naviagte to the screen caputre in windows explorer.. without using iTunes. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s read only, so you can’t actually use it as portable storage. But at least there is something you don’t have to use iTunes for.
You CAN USE ANY USB port to charge but IT HAS TO BE USB 2.0. PS2 was long before USB 2.0 came about. You can change your dock items by holding down on any app until they start to shake then just drag that app into your dock.
hey guys anyone know how to take a screenshot of the iPod screen? i heard it can be done, but don’t know how.
Is there anyway to take a pic of me
posting a smart-assy, one-upy comment
so that I might use it as a myspace
default photo? /johnjoecamacho
… And now I wait for you
Hey I see a lot of ppl are having trouble.
I have some answers.
Okay, if your iPod touch can’t sence your finger try to re-boot. If still nothing use customer support at apple.com.
If your safari isn’t working (Duh) buy wireless for your home.
Now, here is something not posted yet, I read EVERY COMMENT AND FORUM ON THIS PAGE
It’s mostly just for messin with ur friend with a 2G.
Hold the volume up button and press the home twice.
It makes it where they can’t turn the volume down LOL. To deactivate it press the volume up button THEN the volume down button will work again.
Hey this is for Gabriel (feb2)
Im sure your ipod touch works normally now, but heres a reason. The ipod touch is heat sensitive (unlike the nintendo ds).. So it may have been that your finger was too cold (since you were outside) or you were using your fingernail. Also if your ipod touch is warm, it is harder for it to sense your finger.
Btw, i think the only way too change your springboard wallpaper is to have your ipod touch jailbroken.
I hope this stuff helps
Hey this is for Gabriel (feb2)
Im sure your ipod touch works normally now, but heres a reason. The ipod touch is heat sensitive (unlike the nintendo ds).. So it may have been that your finger was too cold (since you were outside) or you were using your fingernail. Also if your ipod touch is warm, it is harder for it to sense your finger.
Btw, i think the only way too change your springboard wallpaper is to have your ipod touch jailbroken.
I hope this stuff helps
oops sry >.<”
@sophie 61-dumb bitch,he says its not double tap home button and enough of the print screen tips for FFS its not hard…didnt realise how many stupid people there were in this world.jesus christ
To delete a movie, email or tv show off your ipod without connecting to iTunes, hold down on the movie and move your finger to the left or right. A little red button saying “delete” will appear, giving you the option of deleting the file.
I see all the comments about the screen shot thing but when I try it, it doesn’t work i done know if I have 1st or 2nd gen can anyone tell me why?
=]
The opening a link in a new tab trick doesn’t work with deviantart
People need to read through the posts before adding one. how many people have to post about the screenshot feature. seriously get a brain people…
I just bought my ipod touch yesterday. Thanks for the information! Great article!
to take a screenshot you press the home button and the lock button ant the same time, the screen will turn white forond and then go to your pictures and it will be the last one.
some times my time randomky changes. my itouch is brand new and i don’t know why it decided to change the time
Also if you press the home and sleep button( One at the top of iPod/iphone) at the same time you can take a screen shot of your well screen LOL hope that helps!
can someone please tell me how i get photos from my ipod onto my new computer
OMG! if you push home and power button at the same time it will save the screen !! OMG! this is so cool and i am glad i am the first to post about it !!
To change the background on the homescreen you need to jailbreak your iPod touch/iphone but this may cause you not to be able to download some apps from iTunes.
Well we are a bunch of needs arnt we , j hade the same problem and so I took my iPod to the vets and they diagnosed it with this error 113op lucklyihad my trusty glasses so I put them in and looked at the serial number which read ‘11 aa 11 as aa 11′ frankly I think we all need to get a life
Geeky
just got the 1st generation touch, and it won’t allow me to put my songs on shuffle. so like when a song finishes it should randomly choose anouther and it doesn’t. why??? i’v pressed shuffle that doesnt work now i have no idea. please help
done it lol
To get album covers that arent available on itunes go on www.google.co.uk/images then search like this (without “” or stuff in brackets) ;
(eg) - “lily allen(artist) the fear (song name) album cover”
then hit search
When I try to do the screenshot thing, the volume box comes up (2nd Gen) and ruins the pic. Plus hitting volume up and home takes a pic. It’s like my power and volume up buttons have fused. Rebooting no help. Ideas?
How do I delete files from Itunes that are duplicates?
cory (first post): are you sure your not just accidently hitting the volume rocker? cos that sounds exactly like what happens when you press the rocker when not listening to music or watching a video.
sorry for the double post. to red, you are not the first person to post this, look back at josh g in october ‘08 he posts the exact same thing. read the posts next time.
i have a 2nd generation ipod touch.. my wireless has stoped working..when i go into the settings areait says wi-fi; no wi-fi and i cant access it to turn it on and off.. my speakers have stopped workin and when i push the sleep button the volume increaes and cant turn down using the sidebar…any help please!!??
Stupid guys………screenshot tip has been posted earlier hundredss of timess…. so no more this tip please….
My tip….
1)you can restrict few of the application with a passcode…
Go to Settings/general/restrictions and enable restrictions which will make certains applications disappear from your ipod (Applications like safari,itunes store,you tube etc….
Tip 2)
Zooming in a picture by either double tapping it
or holding the picture with two fingers(One thunb and one finger) and moving them away zooms in ur pics while moving closer ur fingers, zooms out….
Hey peeps! Here’s another one…
If hold the home button and press the lock button JOKINNNG GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!! u know that one LOL
Haft of the post here are about the screen capture. And NO YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST ONES TO POST IT. Read before you post. Sheesh. And to those who cant connect, its not the ipod that has a problem, most of the time its the router or dsl modems. But in most cases posted here, the problem is the user.