Automatic shut down on iPod Touch?

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Automatic shut down on iPod Touch?

Is there any setting for automatic shutdown on iPod Touch? I keep forgetting to (manually) shut my iPod down after listening to it and since it doesn´t automaticly shut down after xxx minutes of being idle, the battery drains just staying powered on without me using it. Quite irritating since my old iPod Mini had this feature by default.

Suggestions? Or should I just keep trying to remember to shut it down...? 🙂

iPod Touch, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Jan 1, 2009 11:46 PM

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Answer 1

MarkyB13

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Jan 14, 2009 1:13 AM in response to BM

I'm having the opposite problem...

I leave it playing music in my speaker dock, and it shuts off on its own after about 1/2 hour even though I'm still listening.

I have not been able to find any controls for controlling or disabling the auto-sleep.

Please let me know if you find anything related to this

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Answer 2

luvlabs

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Jan 14, 2009 7:12 AM in response to MarkyB13

Settings > General > Autolock allows you to set the amount of time before it goes back to sleep. If you are playing music, it should continue even though the screen is off - but that might depend on the dock.

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Answer 3

Jan 14, 2009 6:42 PM in response to BM

Greetings, another option to try out is this:

Home > Clock > Timer. Under menu item "when timer ends" you can set it to "sleep ipod". You do need to restart the timer though for any next time you want to invoke it.

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Answer 4

Bottlerboi

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Jan 2, 2009 3:01 AM in response to BM

You don't need to turn it off - just send it too sleep, it uses virtually no battery at all. And there's a handy auto-sleep feature under settings->General.
Hope this helps.

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