The iPhone’s iPod app is super-easy to use, and it’s very intuitive to get the hang of all its main controls. But … if you’re like me and you just never looked much beyond the basics with it, here’s a quick tip on customizing one major part of its interface – the Home Row Buttons.
The Home Row Buttons are the ones that run along the bottom of the iPod screen and let you switch to the Playlists, Songs, Artists and Videos views when you tap them. Although the number of buttons displayed there is fixed at four, you can easily change which ones are displayed. So, for example, if you don’t play that many videos on the iPod, and you would really rather have one tap access to Audio Books or Podcasts, you can easily get it.
To customize the Bottom Row buttons:
- Hit the ‘More’ button
- Tap ‘Edit’ on the More screen
- On the Edit screen, just drag the button you want to the desired slot on the bottom row you want to replace.
You can also re-arrange the order of the four buttons on the bottom row just by dragging and dropping them on the same Edit screen.
I found this tip in the ‘How To Do Everything with Your iPhone’ book (which I’ll be reviewing soon), and was happy to be able to swap the Podcasts button onto the bottom row for one tap access.
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