These are welcome changes that make the iPod nano’s tiny touchscreen a bit more usable. To use the Compilations list, you’ll want to enable the new setting, under Music in Settings, to group compilations.)
(You can also access Audiobooks, Podcasts, and iTunes U from within Music.
You now access the Genius Mixes, Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, and Composers items-as well as the new Compilations-via menus within the Music app. With iPod nano software 1.2, most of these items are still available as options, but the default Home screen configuration contains 11 or fewer: Now Playing, Music, Radio, Fitness, Clock, Photos, Audiobooks, Podcasts, iTunes U, Voice Memos (if a microphone is attached), and Settings. iPod nano software versions 1.0 and 1.1 offered up to 17 different app-like icons: Playlists, Now Playing, Artists, Genius Mixes, Radio, Podcasts, Photos, Settings, Songs, Albums, Genres, Composers, Fitness, Clock, Audiobooks (if you’d synced one or more audiobooks to the iPod), iTunes U (if you’d synced one or more iTunes U audio courses), and Voice Memos (if a microphone was attached). One consequence of this new one-icon-at-a-time interface is that to avoid endless swiping, Apple has eliminated a good number of icons. The nano with software version 1.1 (left) and 1.2 (right) It’s also much easier to tap a particular icon, especially when walking or exercising. While the app icons and background appearance are otherwise identical, the new interface feels more like Apple’s Cover Flow feature, as you always see the edge of the icons to the left and right of the current one. The first is that instead of displaying four tiny icons per screen, the nano now displays only a single, much larger icon at a time as before, you swipe left or right to view other icons, and tap an icon to access its functions. Version 1.2 of the iPad nano software maintains the iOS-like interface, but with a few significant changes. However, the nano’s tiny screen meant that, with four tiny icons per screen, it was easy to accidentally tap the wrong icon.
For example, it was ideal for flicking through and zooming photos, tuning and setting presets for the built-in FM tuner, scrubbing through tracks, rating tracks, and editing playlists. As I noted in my review of the original sixth-generation nano, this new iOS-like, touchscreen approach was a significant improvement over the traditional Click Wheel interface for many tasks.
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