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
Erase iPod touch
When you delete data, it’s no longer accessible through the iPod touch interface, but it isn’t erased from iPod touch storage. To remove all of your content and settings from storage, erase iPod touch. For example, erase iPod touch before you sell it or give it away. If you want to save your content and settings, back up iPod touch before erasing it.
You can erase iPod touch from Settings 
. If you’re unable to open Settings, you can use a computer to erase iPod touch.
Erase all content and settings from iPod touch
Go to Settings > General > Reset.
If you’re asked to enter your passcode and you’ve forgotten it, see Reset the passcode. If you’re asked to enter your Apple ID password and you’ve forgotten it, see the Recover your Apple ID website.
Tap Erase All Content and Settings.
When iPod touch restarts with all content and settings erased, you have the option to set up iPod touch as new or restore it from a backup. See Turn on and set up iPod touch.
Use a computer to erase all content and settings from iPod touch
You can use a Mac or Windows PC to erase all data and settings from your iPod touch, restore iPod touch to factory settings, and install the latest version of iOS. For example, if you can’t open Settings on iPod touch, you can use this approach to restore iPod touch to factory settings.
Before iPod touch is erased, you have the option to back it up. If you make a backup, you can use the backup to restore your data and settings on your iPod touch or on a new device. See Restore iPod touch from a computer backup.
Do one of the following:
In the Finder sidebar on your Mac: Select your iPod touch, click General at the top of the window, then click Restore iPod touch.
To use the Finder to restore iPod touch to factory settings, macOS 10.15 or later is required. With earlier versions of macOS, use iTunes to restore iPod touch.
In the iTunes app on a Windows PC: Click the iPod touch button near the top left of the iTunes window, click Summary, then click Restore iPod touch.
Follow the onscreen instructions.
See the Apple Support article If you can’t update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.