Apple IPod Touch IOS8 User Guide

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Speak Screen
iPod touch can read the contents of the screen to you, even if you don’t use VoiceOver.
Turn on Speak Screen. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech.
Have iPod touch speak the screen. Swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. Use 
the controls that appear to pause speaking or adjust the rate.
Highlight what’s being spoken. Turn on Highlight Content, below the Speak Screen switch when 
it’s turned on.
Use Siri. Say “speak  screen.”
You...

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Assignable tones
You can assign distinctive ringtones to people in your contacts list for audible FaceTime caller ID. 
You can also assign distinct tones to alert you of a variety of other events, including new mail, 
sent mail, Tweet, Facebook Post, and reminders. See Sounds and silence
 on page 31. 
You can purchase ringtones from the iTunes Store on iPod touch. See Chapter 22, iTunes Store, on 
page 10 3 .
Video Descriptions
Video descriptions provide an audible...

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Use your hearing aids with more than one iOS device. If you pair your hearing aids with more 
than one iOS device (both iPhone and iPod touch, for example), the connection for your hearing 
aids automatically switches from one to the other when you do something that generates audio 
on the other device, or when you receive a phone call on iPhone. Changes you make to hearing 
aid settings on one device are automatically sent to your other iOS devices. To take advantage...

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Guided Access
Guided Access helps an iPod touch user stay focused on a task. Guided Access dedicates 
iPod touch to a single app, and lets you control which app features are available. Use Guided 
Access to:
 •Temporarily restrict iPod touch to a particular app
 •Disable areas of the screen that aren’t relevant to a task, or areas where an accidental gesture 
might cause a distraction
 •Limit how long someone can use an app
 •Disable the iPod touch hardware buttons
Use...

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If you use multiple switches, you can set up each switch to perform a specific action and 
customize your item selection method. For example, instead of automatically scanning screen 
items, you can set up switches to move to the next or previous item on demand.
You can adjust the behavior of Switch Control in a variety of ways, to suit your specific needs 
and style.
Add a switch and turn on Switch Control
You can use any of these as a switch:
 •An external adaptive...

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Perform screen gestures. Choose Gestures from the control menu.
Scroll the screen. Select an item in a scrollable part of the screen, then:
 •With Auto Tap off: Choose the Scroll Down button (next to the Tap button) in the control menu. 
Or, for more scrolling options, choose More, then choose Scroll.
 •With Auto Tap on: Choose Scroll from the control menu. If many actions are available, you 
might have to choose More first.
Tap the Home button. Choose Home from the...

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Point scanning
Point scanning lets you select an item on the screen by pinpointing it with scanning crosshairs.
Switch to point scanning. Use item scanning to choose Point Mode from the control menu. The 
vertical crosshair appears when you close the menu.
Select an item. Trigger your Select Item switch when the item you want is within the broad, 
horizontal scanning band, then trigger again when the fine scanning line is on the item. Repeat 
for vertical scanning....

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Fine-tune Switch Control. Choose Settings from the control menu to:
 •Adjust scanning speed
 •Change the location of the control menu
 •Switch between item scan mode and point scan mode
 •Choose whether point scan mode displays crosshairs or a grid
 •Reverse the scanning direction
 •Turn sound or speech accompaniment on or off
 •Turn off groups to scan items one at a time
AssistiveTouch
AssistiveTouch helps you use iPod touch if you have difficulty touching the screen or...

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Create your own gesture. You can add your own favorite gestures to the control menu (for 
example, tap and hold or two-finger rotation). Tap the menu button, tap Favorites, then tap an 
empty gesture placeholder. Or go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch > Create 
New Gesture.
Example 1:
 To create the rotation gesture, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > 
AssistiveTouch > Create New Gesture. On the gesture recording screen that prompts you to...

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International keyboards
Use international keyboards
International keyboards let you type text in many different languages, including Asian 
languages and languages written from right to left. For a list of supported keyboards, go to 
www.apple.com/ipod-touch/specs.html
 •Add a keyboard:  Tap Add New Keyboard, then choose a keyboard from the list. Repeat to add 
more keyboards.
 •Remove a keyboard:  Tap Edit, tap  next to the keyboard you want to remove, tap Delete, 
then tap Done.
 •Edit your...