With its easy-to-use interface, amazing features, and rock-solid stability, iOS is the foundation of iPod touch. And it’s the platform for the world’s largest collection of apps.
Elegant and intuitive interface.
You were born to use it.
You know how to use iPod touch from the first time you pick it up. That’s because the revolutionary Multi-Touch interface in iOS was designed for your finger. And the simple, beautiful Home screen is the easiest place to start. From built-in apps to over 500,000 apps available from the App Store. From making a FaceTime call to editing a video with iMovie. Everything you touch is easy, intuitive, and fun.
Hundreds of amazing features.
The features included with iOS 5 make iPod touch even more powerful, innovative, and fun to use. Here are just a few. Learn more about iOS 5
Messages with iMessage
Talk it up with fellow iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users running iOS 5. iMessage on iPod touch works over Wi-Fi, it’s free to use, and it’s secure. Talk to more people at once with group messaging. And if words are not enough, you can send photos, videos, locations, and contacts, too.
Learn more about Messages
Notification Center
iPod touch works with your apps to let you know about missed messages, friend requests, likes and comments, and more. New notifications appear discreetly at the top of your screen — without interrupting what you’re doing. And you can see a summary of recent notifications when you swipe down from the top of any screen.
Learn more about Notification Center
Twitter Integration
Twitter is integrated into iOS 5. So you can sign in once under Settings and begin tweeting directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps. You can even start typing a friend’s Twitter name and iOS will auto complete the rest from your contacts.
Game Center
The world’s most popular gaming platform ups its game with iOS 5. Post a picture to your player profile. Get game recommendations without leaving the Game Center app. And meet new opponents based on current friends and foes.
Learn more about Game Center
Reminders
You’ll never miss an important homework assignment, errand, or item on your shopping list with Reminders. Create lists of things to do that you can check off as you go. Even add due dates so Reminders knows when to send you an alert.
Learn more about Reminders
Safari
With iOS 5, it’s even easier to read the web. Tap Safari Reader to display articles without ads or clutter. Running short on time? Add article links to your Reading List so you can easily come back to them later.
Learn more about Safari
The world’s largest mobile app platform.
With over 500,000 apps in practically every category, iOS is the platform for the world’s largest collection of mobile apps. Apple gives third-party developers a rich set of tools and APIs, and they’ve been creating apps and games that redefine what a mobile device can do. To find them, just browse the App Store from your iPod touch and download them with a tap.
Learn more about apps from the App Store
Performance and stability that lead the industry.
iOS is a desktop-class operating system that’s been reinvented for mobile devices. Because it’s based on the world’s most advanced desktop operating system — OS X — performance in iOS is fast and stability is rock-solid. iOS manages power efficiently and delivers outstanding battery life. And multitasking in iOS doesn’t slow down the performance of the foreground app or drain the battery unnecessarily. So the fun doesn’t stop until you do.
Hardware and software made for each other.
Because Apple makes both the iPod touch hardware and the operating system, everything works together seamlessly and intelligently. This integration enables apps to take full advantage of iPod touch hardware features such as the Retina display, the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, the three-axis gyro, accelerated graphics, and more. FaceTime is a perfect example. It uses both iPod touch cameras, the display, the microphone, and your Wi-Fi connection.
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Multi-Touch technology.
Multi-Touch is an easy, intuitive, and natural way to do everything because you do it all with a tap, drag, swipe, pinch, flick, or twist of your fingers.
Really long battery life.
The Apple A4 chip inside iPod touch is incredibly power efficient. You get up to 40 hours of music playback and up to 7 hours of video playback.* So all the fun you have on iPod touch might even outlast you.
Safe and secure from prying eyes. And fingers.
iOS is highly secure from the moment you turn on your iPod touch. All apps run in a safe environment, so a website or app can’t access data from other apps. iOS supports encrypted network communication to protect your sensitive information. To guard your privacy, apps requesting location information must get your permission first. You can set a passcode lock to prevent unauthorized access to your device and configure iPod touch to delete all your data after too many unsuccessful passcode attempts. And in case your iPod touch is lost or stolen, Find My iPod touch allows you to locate it on a map and remotely delete all your data. When you get it back, you can restore everything from your last backup.
It comes with built-in parental controls.
Parental controls built into iOS help you manage just about everything your child can do on iPod touch. Set custom restrictions for Safari, Camera, FaceTime, Game Center, YouTube, Location Services, and more. Even manage access to stuff you’ve already purchased from the iTunes Store and App Store.
Ready to learn.
With iOS, iPod touch becomes an incredible learning tool. See all the appointments and activities that make up your life with iCal. Do research on the web or write an email — even attach a photo or document — with built-in Wi-Fi. Record interviews, reading samples, study guides, or class lectures with Voice Memos. Or find help defining a word, locating the lumbar spine, or practicing French vocabulary from any number of education apps in the App Store.
Learn more about iPod touch in education
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Accessibility built in.
iOS comes standard with a wide range of accessibility features that help people with disabilities experience everything iPod touch has to offer. For example, the built-in VoiceOver screen-reading technology allows those who are blind or have low vision to hear a description of the item they’re touching on the screen. iOS also offers out-of-the-box support for over 30 wireless braille displays and many other accessibility features, such as dynamic screen magnification, playback of closed-captioned video, white on black text, and more.
Works when you’re in a land far, far away.
You’re going to study abroad, and you want to use an app that helps teach you the language or one that just helps translate. iPod touch and iOS are made to be used around the world. The user interface is localized into over 30 languages, and you can easily switch between them. Because the keyboard is software based, you can select from over 50 different layouts with support for language-specific features including diacritic marks on characters, handwritten input for Chinese, and contextual character options for Japanese. So even if you speak two (or more) languages, you can send, or read, an email in another language. In addition, the built-in dictionaries support over 50 languages, VoiceOver reads screens in 36 languages, and Voice Control understands over 20 languages.
