iPod touch 16 GB: Could anyone tell this electronic illiterate mom if parental controls are possible for the iPod Touch?
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Yes, there are parental controls for the iPod touch. In the Settings menu of the touch, Parental Controls will be an option. You can lock out certain features like the App Store, Safari, iTunes Wi-Fi, Youtube, and Explicit Content, and then lock it down with your own personal passcode (a 4-letter code that only you will know.) I hope this helps.
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see the 6th post downhttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12219663
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Hello,they have games and apps for older children (which I haven't tried yet since mine are 5 and 2 years old). Plus the new Innotab 2S is Wifi ready so that would probably be really cool for her.
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parental control is located in your browsers setting u should be able to set it up for your needs
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Absolutely - Simply check "Enable Hard Drive Use" in iToons when you're setting up prefs and the deal is done. If you do not want the computer to affect the music just UNcheck "Open iTunes when this iPod is connected" in prefs. If u plug into a different computer and iToons opens, just quit itoons immediately as it opens. You may get a notice that iToons is updating the ipod. Click ok & just quit the pgm. Just remember, after you eject the ipod (properly-right?) the iPod will still show the red "Do Not Disconnect" symbol. Respect its wishes. It will dissappear in a moment. Then pull the cable. End of story. I currently have about 5 gigs of backup info on mine & it is a real lifesaver. Hope this helps
1895111
You need to upgrade your operating system on the iPod touch.It costs $10 to upgrade. After you do that, you can install I talk.
519181
There is no remote control. But, the control panel on the radio does control the ipod. You can surf playlists, play and pause songs, etc. You can also control an external hard drive or thumb drive the same way. I'm still happy with the unit, use it daily.
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Yea, that's what I meant. The ipod touches that are purhcased after today will haev the Applications installed.I wonder if any of the ones on amazon have any pre-installed. I don't feel like paying $20, but I don't want to jailbreak without knowing full details.---EDIT:Hmm.. i see the price dropped some more. maybe they are compensating with a $20 price drop. Let me ask CS and find out.
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Yes, there are apps for that. The key is to recognize that the amount of memory is limited, and installing too many games or other apps will make it perform poorly. For a single purpose tablet, (ie. Kids to play, adults to i Se for remote email, etc) this works great. If speed is a big issue, spend the money and get something more robust. This has worked out well for my middle school aged daughter.
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This device is the worst purchase I've ever made. Do not buy. There is no parental controls
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No, you can't. As all Apple device. But 16g is enough space for a small device. Unless you are using to store videos.
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I bought it for a 5 and 7 year old. I only surf the net and check my email. Sorry, I couldn't be much help. You can call Apple.
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Just change the input to ipod, in the remote control. Once its in the ipodSetting, you can skip any songs using the remote control buttons. Hope it works
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Actually if you look at that same specs page you'll see it mentions a dock adapter coming in the box so it shouldn't be a problem either way. For me the ipod touch is everything that I was looking for. Sure it could have been given a power hungry disk drive with more capacity, but flash is the better option hands down. Lower energy consumption with that nice slim form factor and better battery life for the size (look at specs on the classic 160 and you'll see the difference). I don't know why you would need 16gb of music and videos on there at any one time anyways, manual sync people...use it
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I'm waiting for a 128gb flash player that SOUNDS good, and can be loaded with a standard usb cable, and not requiring some proprietary software (read itunes). I test drove a 64gb ipod touch when it first came out, because my 16gb cowon iaudio7 is too small, but it sounded terrible, admittedly it was a stock set of tunes ripped at a low bit rate, but when I wanted to load up my own max bit rate tunes to it, the geniuses at the apple store couldn't fathom why someone would want to listen to tunes they'd ripped themselves, or how to make it happen. Hopefully someone raises the bar on storage space and sound quality, neither of which should be hard at this point. I wish someone would swing for the fences and do a flash 256gb player. I have to admit, I'm anachronistic, in that I don't want internet access, apps, videos, etc. just a gigantic music player that's not disk based (use it on a motorcycle, drop it constantly on the commute), that sounds fantastic and has great battery life. The more things a device does, the performance of each of those things suffers.
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Nabi has something called "Mommy/Daddy" mode that allows parents or whoever to get to the REAL tablet functions and internet. My grandson would watch Netflix on his without a problem. There was no app, he just went straight to the website and "Voila!" He still does it. The 4GB memory limitation may be a problem (speedwise) but you can always contact Nabi directly at 1-885-ASK-NABI, https://www.nabitablet.com/support/products/nabijr, or go to their site and chat with a representative. One of my grandson's (the one that uses Netflix, YouTube, and other sites on his) has the Nabi Tablet. My smaller grandson has this one (the 5"). So, far except for the memory. They basically work the same. Another commenter here said she returned the Nabi Jr and got a Kindle for her child. That was a good, and more expensive choice. We have Kindle Fires too. Kindles have parental controls in the "Kindle Freetime" mode and, as she says, you can buy or download apps to them...if you are a little tech-savvy. Problem is the Kindles are not very good choices for kids under 7 unless you are "warrantied-up" or your kid is advance beyond his or her years in handling technology! Your choice. Good luck!
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I can agree with you with the size capacity. However in the design they probably had to go to flash to keep it smaller. And there was a 160gb iPod classic before they dropped the first iPod Touch with 8gb and 16gb.