IPOD Nano(6th generation) is not shuffling songs(PlAYLIST)

Jeff, did you sort this? I had the same problem. Only solved it by putting it into 'Songs' then tapped the shuffle icon. (I also couldn't find a repeat setting as referred to in the reply above... also got a couple of other mystery missing settings)

I have been driven nuts by this problem, and I finally cracked it today after reading through the forgoing and tearing my hair out. Look at page 29 of the user manual, at the screen shots at the top. Ignore the left one, just get your nano to show the middle screen. No shuffle icons, none of the stuff you want, huh? Wrong! The one on the right of the page, the one you want, is there, out to the right!

So if you scroll the visible screen left, you get the third screen, the one that is on the right side of the page. That's the one that has that shuffle control. Mission accomplished, almost! Just tap the shuffle icon.

This is a fault on the part of the manual writers, who clearly had to know the nano backwards, but who, as a result, didn't spoon-feed us enough. All it took was "Oh, by the way, if you want the second screen. you need to scroll across to it!"

Maybe they say it somewhere, but we all know that users don't read the manual, and when they do, they don't do it in a logical and sequential way. Ah well, five weeks after a doofus shop assistant in Singapore messed it up, I have things going again. Thanks to those who did the hard work and left the clues! Me, I just flailed about irrationally until I got lucky 🙂

As a general tip, if you see little pips at the bottom of any screen you are on, that means that there are more screens available. For instance, if you are at the now playing screen, you will see two at the bottom (more for podcasts, etc). One is lighter than the other - that means you are on that page. So the darker one to the right tells you that there is another page to see to the right. This applies at all the screen on the new nano.

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