Interacting with Your iPod Touch

Abstract

This chapter has explored all the ways you can interact with your iPod touch, from taps to buttons to pinches. You’ve read about the touchscreen and how you can communicate with it. You’ve discovered how to access your home screen, how to lock it, and how to rearrange its icons. You’ve explored your iPod touch’s General settings, and you’ve learned tips and tricks to using the iPod touch’s virtual keyboard and setting accessibility options. In short, you’ve been introduced to all the basic ways you and your iPod touch can communicate with each other. Here are a few key lessons for you to carry away with you: Build up your working iPod touch interaction vocabulary. You will be surprised how often one of the rarer gestures, such as the two-fingered tap, can prove useful. If you are using your iPod touch in an area where your data’s security is an issue, be sure to set a passcode lock. Spotlight is a powerful search tool on the iPod touch and offers you another way to quickly launch your apps. The iPod touch supports more than a dozen keyboard languages as well as multiple keyboards. Don’t worry about typing perfectly on the iPod touch. Its smart keyboard will correct most of your mistakes automatically. Get used to the multitasking features of the iPod touch to easily switch between background applications. KeywordsRecovery ModeLandscape ModeContextual MenuHome ScreenBack ButtonThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.