14 Facts About IPod Touch

IPod Touch is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc with a touchscreen-controlled user interface.

IPod Touch was introduced in 2007; some 100 million iPod Touch units were sold by May 2013.

IPod Touch models were sold by storage space and color; all models of the same generation typically offered identical features, performance, and operating system upgrades.

Apple dropped support for the seventh-generation iPod Touch following the release of iOS 16, ending software support for the iPod Touch lineup and the iPod product line as a whole.

From launch, the iPod Touch was described by journalists as an "iPhone without the phone", and each iPod Touch model to date has been introduced with the same release of iOS as the contemporary iPhone model.

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The fifth generation iPod Touch gained the ability to take panoramic photos, a feature shared with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5.

IPod Touch units running iOS 4 or earlier require a Mac or PC to be set up for the first time.

Only official way to obtain third-party applications for the iPod Touch is through Apple's App Store, which is a branch of iTunes Store.

IPod Touch is generally similar to the iPhone models prior to the iPhone X .

The first generation iPod Touch lacks a built-in speaker, and the first, second, and third generation iPod Touch lack a microphone, a camera, and a flash.

IPod Touch has no cellular modem, and therefore cannot directly make phone calls on the public switched telephone network.

IPod Touch models released before 2012 feature a 30-pin dock connector, which carried analog signals.

Jailbreaks for the iPod Touch first surfaced a month after the original model was released in September 2007, when hackers released JailbreakMe 1.

Later models received a more lukewarm reception, with reviewers questioning whether an iPod Touch made sense as a product in a time where smartphones had become more affordable.