Apple – I am not sure that it is a “good thing” to mess around with my iPod!
It took a while for Granny Edna to get to know how to work this iPod thingamajig. I have been basically pleased with most of the new updates from Apple, especially since they stopped wiping my iPod Touch clean each time they updated. However, with this last update, some basic modes of use have been changed and totally without warning.
I first noticed it the next morning after listening to my iPod in bed, when I awoke to find my battery was dead. I am accustomed to my iPod shutting down automatically at the end of a pod-cast. Now it just keeps going and going, kinda like the energizer bunny, playing pod-cast after pod-cast and when it goes through all of the pod-casts, it starts over.
Now that little scenario is handy when listening to the iPod while driving, as before I had to start a new chapter of an audio book, each time the old chapter (podcast) finished, which meant waiting for the next red light to come along. But it is definitely not handy when I am listening to an audio book in bed and I fall asleep. When I awake, I’ve finished the entire book, but have no idea which chapters I’ve heard.
So now I’ve had to discipline myself NOT to fall asleep whilst listening. The minute I get drowsy, I must disconnect the iPod and turn it off. That’s when I discovered that the iPod Touch doesn’t turn off any more, even when done manually. Although it looks like it’s off, it really isn’t. It is still broadcasting all the podcasts it can find, even though no one is listening to them. Again – dead battery in the morning.
What happened to my iPod Touch? I looked at the settings and found none that I could control. I haven’t had a chance to look at the Online Manual yet – been too busy ranting on my blog about how much trouble this latest iPod Touch update is.
This got me too after a recent update to my iPhone…
On the Now Playing Screen you should see the little Repeat icon on the left just below the time line bar. (It’s the one with two arrows in a circle). Tap that icon so it turns clear (i.e. not ‘blue’) to avoid repeating.
Thank you. I looked everywhere in the iPod Touch manual to find what those two symbols under the time line bar were for.
A workaround I have been using is the clock button, which has a “sleep ipod timer.” When I start listening to the chapter, I note the the time it will run, I go back to the clock time and run it for that many minutes, which will then sleep the iPod touch when that many minutes run out.
I still don’t understand how to use those two symbols you mention. The one on the left, either repeats or goes on the next chapter whether it is clear or blue. There is also a blue setting with a “1″ in it, and it also repeats, same as the plain blue. Why?
Then there is the symbol on right (crossed arrows) which if left clear, alows the iPod to repeat or go forward according to the left symbol. When turned blue, I don’t understand what it is doing. Sometimes it skips forward.
Apparently, there is no way to have the chapter stop and put the iPod to sleep when it ends, as it used to do. If there is I cannot find it.