Using the iPhone’s touch screen to browse your tracks and listen to music blows the iPod’s iconic Clickwheel out of the water.

From the moment your finger touches the iPhone button down the bottom right hand corner of the Home menu’s screen, you’re transported to a world of entertainment where your guide is your favourite movies and music.

The toolbar across the bottom of the iPod menu gives you access to your Playlists, Artists, Songs and Videos, while pressing “More” will bring up the Albums, Audiobooks, Compilations, Composers, Genres and Podcasts options.

Customising the Menu
If you love listening to Podcasts but don’t really care much for video, you aren’t going to want to have to navigate through the “More” option every single time you open up the iPhone’s iPod music player. So instead, make your first port of call to customise the iPod menu screen.

If you want to rearrange the order of the shortcuts, you can do that too, by pressing the icon, holding it down, then dragging it to the most convenient position. Then, when you’re happy with the layout, press the “Done” button at the top of the screen.

Controlling Volume
Parents who want to prevent their children turning music up too loud and causing damage to their hearing will love the iPhone’s volume-limiting feature in the Settings menu.

Not only can you set a maximum volume level for the iPhone, you can also password protect the limit to keep some control over the iPhone user’s listening habits.

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