Section 82. Customize the iPod s Main Menu

82. Customize the iPod's Main Menu

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

42 Transfer Your Music to Your iPod

46 Find and Play Music on the iPod

SEE ALSO

87 Record Voice Notes

You'll spend a fair amount of time at your iPod's Main Menu. This screen gives you top-level access to your music, extra features, settings, and quick commands such as Shuffle Songs and Backlight , as well as (when music is playing) the Now Playing screen. This arrangement of options is designed to give you the maximum amount of useful control over your music and data, while fitting all the options on a single screen.

82. Customize the iPod's Main Menu

As you use the iPod, however, you might find that the default options on the Main Menu are insufficient for your needs. You might want top-level access to your Playlists , for example, or your Contacts , or you might not ever use the Shuffle Songs command and want to get rid of it. Thoughtfully enough, Apple allows you to turn on and off any of the individual options within the Music or Extras screens, allowing you to place them on the Main Menu or remove them accordingly . Some of these options (such as Voice Memos ) are available only if you configure them in this way. Just about the only thing you can't remove from the Main Menu is the Settings screen, where the Main Menu configuration screen is found.

1.	Open the Main Menu Settings From the Main Menu, select Settings , then Main Menu . This command opens up a list of all the iPod commands that can be placed on the Main Menu. All are marked Off , except for the ones that currently appear on the Main Menu, which are marked On .
2.	Toggle Options On and Off Highlight any command and press Select to toggle that command on or off. TIP Remember that the iPod's screen only holds six lines of text. Settings can't be toggled on or off, and the Now Playing option isn't visible unless music is playing; thus, if you enable more than the default four optional items, you'll be forced to scroll up and down on the Main Menu to see all its options.
3.	Return to the Main Menu Press Menu twice to return to the Main Menu and view your newly customized menu screen.
4.	Revert to the Main Menu's Default Configuration If you decide you don't like your customized Main Menu layout, return to the Settings screen, then select Main Menu (as described in step 1), and choose Reset Main Menu from the bottom of the list; choose Reset in the subsequent confirmation screen. This action returns the iPod's Main Menu back to how it appeared when you first bought it.