Chapter 15

Customizing Your iPod touch

The iPod touch has myriad settings allowing you to customize how the device works and looks. You can adjust all of these settings in the Settings app on the home screen of your iPod touch. The iPod's Settings application offers many ways to enhance your iPod experience, in addition to those options tied to a particular application. These general settings control everything from screen brightness to sound effects to keyboard tricks. I've explored various options in the Settings app throughout this book. This chapter covers the remainder of these extra settings and discusses how you can use them in your day-to-day routine. I'll start this chapter by showing you the top five settings people use the most.

Tap the Settings app icon shown in Figure 15–1, and you'll be presented with the Settings screen, a list of preferences for the iPod touch and other applications that are installed on it (see Figure 15–2). To select an app's settings, tap the name of the app.

Figure 15–1. The Settings app icon

Figure 15–2. The Settings screen

Any settings discussed previously in the book are not mentioned in this chapter. Some settings have been described before because it makes more sense to change those settings when you are using a specific iPod.

Six Customizations You'll Want to Use Settings For

The Settings app lets you really customize your iPod touch to its fullest. However, most people won't be messing around with all the advanced settings. Before I launch into explaining all of the general settings, let's go through the top six settings people use the most.

Airplane Mode

This one is for all your frequent fliers and business travelers. Airplane Mode puts your iPod into a preconfiguration that allows you to use it on a plane without the flight attendant telling you to turn your device off. To enable Airplane Mode, tap the switch to ON (Figure 15–3). You'll notice that an orange airplane icon appears in the upper-left menu bar where the word iPod usually is.

Figure 15–3. Airplane mode. Note the orange airplane icon in the top-left menu bar.

When Airplane Mode is on, no Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi signal emanates from the device. In other words, Airplane Mode disables antennas that can interfere with flight instrumentation. When Airplane Mode is enabled, you are not able to use wireless Bluetooth headsets or access the Internet on your iPod. You can reenable Wi-Fi when the plane is in flight, even while using Airplane Mode. This allows you to purchase and use in-flight Wi-Fi and even have a FaceTime video chat with your friends and family back home if you own a fourth-generation iPod touch.

Note that during takeoff and landing, you are instructed to turn off all portable electronics, regardless of whether they are in Airplane Mode or not. To turn Airplane Mode off, tap the switch to OFF.

Twitter

In case you haven't heard, Twitter is the Internet phenom social network and micro-blogging service that allows users to instantly send messages to friends and followers in 140 characters or less. It seems like the whole world is tweeting these days, from your next-door neighbor to celebrities and politicians. As you've seen throughout this book, Twitter is highly integrated into iOS 5. You can tweet directly from Photos, Safari, YouTube, Camera, and Maps, plus many other third-party apps.

Before iOS5, you had to log into your Twitter account in every app that supported tweeting. With iOS 5, there's just a single login location for Twitter, and that means your Twitter account ID is integrated system-wide for easy tweeting.

To set up your Twitter account, go to Twitter in the Settings app. In the Twitter settings (Figure 15–4), enter your Twitter ID and password, and then tap Sign In. If you don't have a Twitter ID, you can tap the Create New Account button and set up a new Twitter account right in the Settings screen

Figure 15–4. Signing into Twitter

Once you are signed into Twitter, you'll be able to tweet directly from iOS 5's built-in apps like Safari, Maps, YouTube, and more. Also, on the Twitter Settings screen you can tap the Install button to immediately download and install the official Twitter app, which lets you fully interact with Twitter.com and all your friends and followers.

In Twitter Settings, tap your account name for additional settings. These include the ability to let your friends find you on Twitter using your e-mail address and automatically tweeting your location when you post a tweet. Finally, you can tap Update Contacts to add Twitter usernames to the people in your Contacts lists.

Sounds

The Sounds settings enable you to select which ringer and alerts sound effects you hear while interacting with your iPod touch (Figure 15–5). These settings are useful when you are using your iPod in a public place like a library or a coffee shop.

Volume slider: This slider, at the top of the screen, allows you to turn your ringer volume up or down. The ringer volume refers to the ringtone you hear when someone initiates a FaceTime call with you.

Change with Buttons: When this is switched to ON, you can use the physical volume buttons on the side of your iPod to adjust the volume level of the ringer and alerts. When set to OFF, the volume of the ringer and alerts is separate from the volume of the other sounds (like music playback) on your iPod touch.

Ringtone: This allows you to choose your FaceTime ringtone from one of Apple's 28 built-in ringtones. If you've synced your own ringtones from iTunes (see Chapter 2), you can also select that ringtone here.

Alerts: By default the iPod plays a sound effect whenever you send or receive mail, have a calendar alert, lock your iPod (by pressing the button on the top of the iPod), press a key on the on-screen keyboard, and more. On the Sounds settings screen, you can choose to change any of these sound effects or even disable them entirely. Tap the sound effect you want to change and then select a replacement sound effect from the list of effects or choose None. Your boss won't know you're typing an e-mail to your girlfriend with hands under the table while in a meeting.

Figure 15–5. Use Settings Sounds to choose how your iPod plays back system alert sounds like clicks.

Brightness

Choose Settings Brightness (see Figure 15–6) to control your iPod's screen intensity. The slider at the top of the Settings screen lets you manually set exactly how bright your screen is, from very dim (on the left) to very bright (on the right).

A lot of people who jog at night will benefit from turning down the brightness on their iPod touch. Why? Your eyes adjust to the darkness, and when you bring up your iPod to change a song and the screen turns on, it can temporarily blind you if it's set too bright. I've had friends trip and fall while jogging at night because of the sudden blinding light from their iPod touch screen.

Figure 15–6. The Settings Brightness control allows you to set the overall screen intensity for your iPod touch.

The Auto-Brightness option, beneath the brightness slider, controls another light-level feature. It determines whether your iPod samples the ambient light when it wakes up as you slide to unlock. When enabled, it adjusts the screen according to the light it senses in the room. I personally find the Auto-Brightness settings extremely irritating and always leave this option disabled.

Wallpaper

Setting your iPod's wallpaper makes your iPod unique. Who else is going to have a photo of your two-year-old smearing cake batter on her face?

The Settings Wallpaper screen allows you to set your system wallpaper from a library of commercial-grade photos that shipped with your iPod. You can also select wallpaper from any image, such as your personal photos, on your iPod touch. Select Wallpaper to see your current lock and Home screen wallpaper settings (Figure 15–7). To change either wallpaper, tap the Lock and Home screen image, and you'll be presented with a list of all the photos on your iPod. The Wallpaper collection is full of images that came with your iPod touch. Below it is a list of all of your photos.

Figure 15–7. Settings Wallpaper offers the ability to set wallpaper for the lock screen and the home screen on your iPod touch (left). Select from Apple-supplied wallpapers or use photos from your own collections (right).

When you've found the image you want to use, you can move and scale it with your fingers and then tap the Set button (Figure 15–8). From the pop-up menu, choose to use that image as the lock screen wallpaper, as the home screen wallpaper, or as both wallpapers.

Figure 15–8. Move and scale your image (left), and then choose to use it as wallpaper for the lock screen, home screen, or both.

Location Services

On the iPod touch there are dozens of features that rely on knowing your current location. These include Maps, time zone settings, Weather, photo geolocation, and more. However, in today's privacy-sensitive world, people want to be able to control what apps or processes have access to their current location. That's where Location Services comes in (Figure 15–9).

Figure 15–9. Left, the Location Services settings can be used to disable all location services or just disable some apps from reading your current location. Right, the System Services screen gives you control over iOS 5 location services.

To control location information on your iPod, navigate to Settings Location Services. If Location Services is set to ON, any apps that can automatically find your location (like the Maps app) are able to do so. Any app that has permission to read your current location shows up in the list. But before any app can access your current location, you must give it approval to do so. A pop-up notification automatically appears when an app requests your current location (see Figure 15–23).

Apps can use your location in any number of ways. The Facebook app, for example, can use your location to tell your friends where you are posting from. The Maps app uses your location in order to help identify where you are on the map.

Location services are very handy. However, today it's easy to get paranoid about people finding you based on your device's location. To turn all location services off, tap the Location Services switch to OFF (Figure 15–9). Alternatively, leave location services on, but disable location services on a per-app basis.

You can also control the amount of access other iOS services have to your location. On the Location Services screen, tap the System Services button, and then toggle on or off services such as location-based iAds, traffic, and diagnostics.

Other Good-to-Know Settings

Under Settings General, you'll find that the General settings (Figure 15–10) are the “meat” of settings that have to do with the iPod touch itself, like sharing, networking, and security.

Figure 15–10. The General settings screen

“About” Your iPod

Your iPod summarizes its capabilities and storage levels, listing the number of songs, videos, photos, and other important information on the Settings General About screen (see Figure 15–11). Here, you'll find basic details about the space available and remaining on your iPod, as well as your current Wi-Fi address.

Figure 15–11. The Settings General About screen lists basic information about your iPod.

At the top of the screen, tap Name to change your iPod's name. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the About screen, you'll see a link labeled Legal. Tap this to jump to an insanely long list of Apple legal notices. It's a boring document to read, but it's an amazingly good place to get some practice flicking your screen. You almost never run out of text to scroll through.

Software Update

New to iOS 5 is the ability to update the iOS software without having to plug your iPod into iTunes and download the software from there. These automatic updates are referred to as over-the-air (OTA) updates. Now any time a software update is available for iOS, a red badge appears on the corner of the Setting icon. You can also manually check for iOS software updates by navigating to Settings General Software Update. Any available IOS software updates are listed there.

Usage

Usage is another new Settings screen that allows you to see how much storage each app on your iPod is taking up. View your usage at Settings General Usage (Figure 15–12).

Figure 15–12. Viewing how much storage space each app is consuming

In Figure 15–12 you can see that the Music app is taking up the most storage space on my iPod. If I tap Music, I can see that all my songs take up a combined 1.1 GB of space, followed by Audiobooks taking up 520 MB, and Podcasts taking up 86.6 MB.

If you tap the Edit button on any app's usage screen, you can selectively delete any of the items to free up space. You can even delete entire apps (but not the ones that shipped on your iPod touch) to free all the space they take up.

Usage is handy if your iPod is almost full but you want to download a movie at the airport to watch on the plane. You can free up some songs or other content in apps to get enough space to download that movie.

iTunes Wi-Fi Sync

As I mentioned in Chapter 2, you can now sync your iPod touch wirelessly when it's in range of your computer and on the same Wi-Fi network. When you plug your iPod touch into a power source, it automatically syncs over the network. You can also manually initiate syncing from your iPod at any time by going to Settings General iTunes Wi-Fi Sync (Figure 15–13) and tapping the Sync Now button.

Figure 15–13. Initiating a Wi-Fi sync from your iPod touch

Network

The settings found on the Settings General Network screen duplicate the Wi-Fi settings covered in Chapter 4. They also include a switch to enable or disable virtual private network (VPN) connections and options to customize your VPN connection.

A VPN is usually used for secure communications over public Internet connections. When this option is enabled, you can configure your VPN account settings with the Network settings screen. Consult your IT department or network provider for details on how to set up your iPod for a VPN connection.

Bluetooth

The Bluetooth settings allow you to turn the iPod touch's Bluetooth signal on or off. This is also where you'll find a list of Bluetooth-compatible devices that your iPod is aware of. To pair a Bluetooth device, select it in the list, and then enter the pairing code. For keyboards, a random code is usually generated. For devices such as Bluetooth headsets, look for the code written on the headset. Note that some newer Bluetooth devices no longer use pairing codes and will show up in your pairing list automatically and ask whether you want to give the device access. To unpair a Bluetooth device, select it from the list, and choose Forget this Device.

If you aren't using any Bluetooth devices with your iPod touch, keep Bluetooth turned off to save battery life. Don't forget to switch it back on when you want to use Bluetooth headsets, use external keyboards, or play games between iPod devices.

Auto-Lock

Use the Settings General Auto-Lock screen (see Figure 15–14) to determine the time period after which your iPod automatically locks. Autolocking is an energy-saving feature. When locked, your screen turns off—although music playback continues—and you must swipe to unlock and return to any previous activities. Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 minutes, or choose Never to leave your screen always on. This last option wears down your battery very quickly indeed.

Figure 15–14. Save your battery and save your screen by setting an autolock time in Settings General Auto-Lock.

Restrictions

If you share your iPod touch among your family or buy one for your children, you may want to limit what they can do on it. The Restrictions settings (Figure 15–15) lets you restrict access to Safari, YouTube, the iTunes Store app, the ability to install apps, the Camera and FaceTime apps, and the ability for apps to use location services. In addition, you can also choose what content you want allowed on the iPod touch. Settings include restricting In-App purchases and limiting access to movies, music, TV shows, and apps that surpass your chosen ratings. Finally, you can also limit multiplayer gaming in Game Center.

Figure 15–15. The Restrictions settings

As you can see, Restrictions is all about protecting your children not only from age-inappropriate music and movies but also from potential outside threats such as strangers calling them on FaceTime or apps that post their current location online. When you enable restrictions, you'll be asked to enter a four-digit passcode. You (or your children) will need this passcode to change or disable any restriction you've set up. The only way your kids can get around these restrictions is if they completely reformat the iPod to factory conditions. However, if they do this, they lose all their music and movies on the iPod.

Date and Time

The settings found on the Settings General Date & Time screen (see Figure 15–16) allow you to specify how you want your system to handle time. Here, you can choose between a 12-hour (9:30 p.m.) and a 24-hour (21:30) clock, set your time zone, and override the system clock to set a new date and time.

Figure 15–16. The Settings General Date & Time options allow you to set a separate time zone just for your iPod calendar events.

Keyboard

You'll find five very clever and helpful typing settings on the Settings General Keyboard settings screen (see Figure 15–17).

Figure 15–17. Use Settings General Keyboard to set several handy typing shortcuts.

Auto-Capitalization: When this feature is set to ON, the iPod is smart about guessing when you're at the start of new sentences. After detecting a period, question mark, or other sentence-ending punctuation, it automatically presses the Shift key for you.

Auto-Correction: When this feature is set to ON, the iPod will suggest words to you as you type. Switch it to OFF to get rid of those word pop-ups.

Check Spelling: When this is set to ON, the iPod spell-check features underlines misspelled words in red. Tap the underlined word to see spelling suggestions.

Enable Caps Lock: When selected, Enable Caps Lock treats all taps on the Shift key as the Caps Lock function—setting it either on or off. When it's disabled, you must press the Shift key before each capitalized letter. The Shift key switches itself back off after each use.

“.” Shortcut: Enabling the period shortcut feature lets you add a period and then a space to the end of sentences by double-tapping the spacebar.

Also, as discussed in Chapter 3, this is the place where you can set text shortcuts that enable you to type using acronyms that expand to full phrases (in other words, typing ttyl will expand to “talk to you later”).

The International Keyboards option on the Keyboard settings screen allows you to set the language for your keyboard. This setting is identical to the one found on the International settings screen we'll discuss now.

International

On the Settings General International screen (see Figure 15–18), you'll find all the settings you need if you want your iPod to operate in a different language.

Language: The primary system language determines how all your menus and buttons display. Whenever an iPod application supports multiple languages, your setting here tells that application which words and phrases to use, internationalizing that application appropriately.

Voice Control: Choose the language you'll be speaking your voice commands in.

Keyboards: The keyboard language sets the default keyboard layout for when you type. If you use a lot of foreign phrases, you may want to switch to an international keyboard for certain tasks. Be aware that the keyboard automatically changes when you set a system language. The rather mysterious number shown on the settings screen (1 in Figure 15–17) indicates the chosen keyboard.

Figure 15–18. International settings let you set your system language, regional keyboard, and date/time formats.

Region Format: The region format switches the standards for how dates, times, and phone numbers display. December 5, 2009, for the U.S. region would display as 5 December 2009 for the U.K. region. Use this setting to augment your language settings with a country norm.

Calendar: This setting changes the calendar format according to which calendar you follow. Select from Gregorian, Japanese, Republic of China, or, coolly enough, Buddhist.

Accessibility

Apple wanted to make sure everyone could use the iPod touch as easily as possible. To that end, Apple built in accessibility features to help people with disabilities use the iPod touch. To see all the accessibility options, on the iPod touch go to Settings General Accessibility (see Figure 15–19). Let's go through these settings one by one.

Figure 15–19. The Accessibility settings

As you can see from Figure 15–19, Apple has divided its accessibility options into three main categories: Vision, Hearing, and Physical & Motor.

VoiceOver

With VoiceOver turned on, a user can simply touch the screen to hear a description of what is beneath his finger, and then double-tap to select the item. With VoiceOver enabled, the iPod touch speaks when the user has a new e-mail message and can even read the e-mail to the user.

It's important to remember that when VoiceOver is turned on, the iPod touch's Multi-Touch gestures change. As a matter of fact, when VoiceOver is enabled, pretty much all of the gestures we've taught you in this book are irrelevant. The Voice Over settings are also where you can pair your iPod touch to a Braille device.

VoiceOver Gestures

I list common VoiceOver gestures here, but be sure to carefully read Apple's VoiceOver article at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3598 for complete VoiceOver gesture controls.

Tap: Speaks the selected item.

Double-tap: Activates the selected item.

Triple-tap: Acts as a double-tap normally would. Triple-tapping an item when VoiceOver is enabled effectively double-taps that item.

Flick right or left: Selects the next or previous item.

Two-finger tap: Stops speaking the current item.

Two-finger flick up: Reads all text or items from the top of the screen.

Two-finger flick down: Reads all text or items from the current position.

Three-finger flick up or down: Scrolls one page at a time.

Three-finger flick right or left: Goes to the next or previous page (such as the Home

Screen pages, Weather pages, or Safari web pages).

Zoom

Zoom allows those who are vision-impaired to magnify their entire screen. This is different from the standard pinch-and-zoom features of the iPod touch's regular software. Accessibility Zoom magnifies everything on the screen, allowing the user to zoom into even the smallest of buttons. When this option is selected, the user can double-tap any part of the iPod touch's screen with three fingers to automatically zoom in 200 percent. When zoomed in, you must drag or flick the screen with three fingers. Also, when you go to a new screen, zooming will always return you to the top middle of the screen.

Large Text

Large Text allows those with vision impairments to enlarge the text in alerts, Contacts, Mail, and Notes. They can choose from 20-, 24-, 32-, 40-, 48-, or 56-point text (12-point text is the normal text you see on a web page).

White on Black

For some people with vision difficulties, inverting the color of a computer screen so it resembles a photographic negative allows them to read text better. Turning on White on Black does just this.

Speak Selection

With this option selected, any selected text (such as the text you select when copying and pasting) is spoken aloud.

Speak Auto-text

With this option selected, any autocorrection text (such as the spell-check pop-ups that appear when you are typing) is spoken aloud.

Mono Audio

With this selected, the stereo sounds of the left and right speakers or headphones are combined into a mono (single) signal. You can then choose which speaker, the left or the right, you want to hear the mono audio come from. This option lets users who have a hearing impairment in one ear hear the entire sound signal with the other ear.

Assistive Touch

Apple recognizes that for people who have limited motor skills, using a small multitouch screen like the one found on the iPod touch can be difficult. With this in mind, Apple created Assistive Touch. When Assistive Touch is enabled, a black-and-white dot is always displayed on the iPod touch's screen.

Tapping the dot displays an on-screen menu overlay (Figure 15–20) that allows users to tap icons that represent gestures. Instead of tapping or swiping with two fingers, Assistive Touch allows the user to simply tap a button that performs the gesture automatically.

Figure 15–20. The Assistive Touch onscreen menu.

Triple-Click Home

If you are sharing an iPod touch with someone with disabilities, selecting this option allows users, by triple-clicking the iPod touch's physical home button, to quickly toggle VoiceOver, Zoom, White on Black, or Assistive Touch on or off. You can also set it so triple-clicking the home button causes a pop-up to appear on-screen asking the user what accessibility feature they want to use (Figure 15–21).

Figure 15–21. The Accessibility Options pop-up menu

Reset

At times, you may need to reset certain iPod features via Settings General Reset (see Figure 15–22). Each of the following options offers a slightly different twist on restoring your iPod to factory conditions and provides a different degree of security.

Figure 15–22. The Settings General Reset screen allows you to return your iPod to factory-fresh settings.

Reset All Settings: This option returns all settings to those that are factory installed.

Erase All Content and Settings: This option deletes all content from your iPod—music, calendar events, videos, contacts, and so forth—and resets your settings at the same time.

Reset Network Settings: This option restores your Wi-Fi network settings to the defaults. This ensures that your iPod will not automatically connect to any “known”, but dangerous, network you might have once encountered.

Reset Keyboard Dictionary: This option “forgets” all words you have typed into your iPod. The onboard keyboard dictionary is smart about learning the words and names that you type, but it also learns a lot of personal information (including passwords) at the same time. Tap this option to delete this dictionary from your system.

Reset Home Screen Layout: This resets your home screen icon arrangement to the default one that shipped on your iPod touch. Any third-party apps appear in alphabetical order starting on the second home screen page. Any Web Clips also appear in alphabetical order mixed in with the third-party apps. Finally, any folders you created are deleted, and their apps all appear on the home screens.

Reset Location Warnings: Any time an app (such as Facebook, Starbucks, Maps, and so on) wants to use your current location, it must first ask you for permission, as shown in Figure 15–23. Resetting the location warnings means every app on your iPod has to ask for your permission again before it can use your current location.

Figure 15–23. The Current Location warning pop-up

iCloud

As previously mentioned, iCloud is Apple's cloud-based services that offers users free e-mail, calendar, and contacts on the Web. iCloud also allows you to automatically sync documents between all your devices, like your Mac or PC, your iPad, and your iPod touch. iCloud works automatically and effortlessly in the background. For example, if you are editing a Pages document on your Mac, you can pick up your iPod touch and launch the Pages app, and the document you were editing on your Mac appears with all of your previous changes. You can start editing where you left off.

To enable iCloud on your iPod touch, go to Settings iCloud and enter your Apple ID and password. That's it. Now all your documents, e-mail, contacts, and calendars are synced wirelessly across all your iCloud-capable devices.

Third-Party App Settings

The remainder of the settings in the Settings app deal with third-party application settings. Any apps that adhere to Apple's developer policies keep their settings here (see Figure 15–24). Most apps do, but some don't. A lot of users think an app's settings should be contained in the app itself, and many developers end up doing just that. With that in mind, it's a good idea to check the Settings app to see whether you favorite apps have additional settings that aren't contained in the app. Also, note that virtually all games have their settings stored within the app, rather than under the iPod Settings app.

Figure 15–24. The Settings app houses most third-party app settings as well.

Voice Control

Not only can your iPod touch talk to you using VoiceOver technology, you can command your iPod touch using Voice Control. Right now, Voice Control is limited to music playback functions and telling you the time. It's a shame too, because Voice Control works quite well and, in addition to FaceTime, is one of the features that makes the latest iPod touch seem like a Communicator from Star Trek.

To use Voice Control, press and hold the Home button until you hear a beep and to see the Voice Control screen appear (Figure 15–25). On the screen you'll see Voice Control suggestions flow behind an audio waveform. You can use any of the following commands to interact with the music player on your iPod:

Control music playback: Say “Play” or “Play music.”

Pause music: Say “Pause” or “Pause music.”

Go to next song: Say “Next song.”

Go to previous song: Say “Previous song.”

Play an album, artist, or playlist: Say “Play,” and then say “Album,” “Artist,” or “Playlist” and the name or the album, artist, or playlist.

Shuffle the current playlist: Say “Shuffle.”

Find out more about the currently playing song: Say “What's playing?” or “What song is this?” or “Who sings this song?” or “Who is this song by?”

Use the Genius feature to play similar songs: Say “Genius,” “Play more like this,” or “Play more songs like this.”

Find out the current time: Say “What time is it?” or “What is the time?”

Cancel Voice Control: Say “Cancel” or “Stop.”

Figures 15–25. The Voice Control screen

Apple says to remember to speak clearly and pause slightly between words. Ironically, the most useful situation to use Voice Control in is while jogging—just the situation when you can't speak or pause normally without huffing and puffing.

Summary

The settings screens discussed in this chapter allow you to customize your iPod to your personal needs and conditions. Here are a few thoughts to take away with you from this overview:

• The Settings app also contains the settings screens for many third-party apps.
• If younger children have access to the iPod touch, you might want to seriously consider activating the Restrictions settings.
• Your Auto-Lock settings are a highly personal choice. Delay locking for long enough that you don't get frustrated with screen locks, but keep the autolock time short enough that you don't needlessly kill your battery.
• Don't sell or pass along your iPod without using the Reset settings to erase your personal data. You can also do a complete system restore via iTunes.
• Use the General About screen to quickly access your iPod's serial number. This is handy if you are talking to AppleCare over the phone.
• The iPod has myriad accessibility options for people who are hard of sight or hearing.
• VoiceOver is a cool technology that lets you speak commands to your iPod. Unfortunately, you're limited to speaking commands for music playback only.