iPod touch User Guide
- Welcome
- Your iPod touch
- What’s new in iOS 14
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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
- 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
- Add widgets
- 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 maps
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- Use Siri, Maps, and widgets to get directions
- Choose your preferred type of travel
- Get driving directions
- Report traffic incidents
- Get cycling directions
- Get walking directions
- Get transit directions
- Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
- Select other route options
- Get directions between places other than your current location
- Delete recently viewed directions
- Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
- Help correct and improve Maps
- Get rides
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- View photos and videos
- Delete and hide 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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- Accessories for charging iPod touch
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- Set up AirPods
- Charge AirPods
- Start and stop audio playback
- Change the AirPods volume
- Make and answer calls with AirPods
- Switch AirPods between devices
- Use Siri with AirPods
- Listen and respond to messages
- Share audio with AirPods and Beats headphones
- Change noise control modes
- Restart AirPods
- Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
- Use other Bluetooth headphones
- Use EarPods
- Check headphone sound levels
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Magic Keyboard
- Printers
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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 in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Copyright
Set up Messages on iPod touch
In the Messages app 
, you can send iMessage texts over Wi-Fi to people who use iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or a Mac.
Sign in to iMessage
Go to Settings
> Messages.Turn on iMessage.
Sign in to iMessage on your Mac and other Apple devices using the same Apple ID
If you sign in to iMessage with the same Apple ID on all your devices, all the messages that you send and receive on iPod touch also appear on your other Apple devices. Send a message from whichever device is closest to you, or use Handoff to start a conversation on one device and continue it on another.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings
> Messages, then turn on iMessage.On your Mac, open Messages, then do one of the following:
If you’re signing in for the first time, enter your Apple ID and password, then click Sign In.
If you signed in before and want to use a different Apple ID, choose Messages > Preferences, click iMessage, then click Sign Out.
With Continuity, all the SMS/MMS messages you send and receive on your iPhone also appear on iPod touch. See the Apple Support article Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.
Use Messages in iCloud
Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud, then turn on Messages (if it’s not already turned on).
Every message you send and receive on your iPod touch is saved in iCloud. And, when you sign in with the same Apple ID on a new device that also has Messages in iCloud turned on, all your conversations show up there automatically.
Because your messages and any attachments are stored in iCloud, you may have more free space on your iPod touch when you need it. Message bubbles, whole conversations, and attachments you delete from iPod touch are also deleted from your other Apple devices (iOS 11.4, iPadOS 13, macOS 10.13.5, or later) where Messages in iCloud is turned on.
See the Apple Support article Use Messages in iCloud.
Note: Messages in iCloud uses iCloud storage. See Manage Apple ID and iCloud settings on iPod touch for information about iCloud storage.