How to Access the FM Radio on an iPod Nano: 4 Steps

Questions and Answers

While some people enjoy listening to MP3 and other audio files on an iPod, there are some people who still like (quite the old school method) to listen to radio. Although most iPods don’t have a built-in radio, the iPod nano has one. However, there is a procedure that a person must go through to get there. Follow along from Step 1 below to find out this procedure.

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Steps

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    Obtain your iPod nano, as well as a pair of headphones or speakers that have a small headphone jack that can plug into the device. Whether it’s buying it, or bringing it out of storage, make sure it’s nearby.

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    Plug the pair of headphones into the bottom of the device. Make sure they have clicked firmly into the headphone jack-port to ensure that the device won’t give you back the error message.

    • As Apple tells you in the error message if you don’t plug these headphones in, your headphones provide the antenna for the device and therefore provide radio reception for the device.
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    Turn on the device and unlock the device. Press the power button followed by the Home button at the center bottom of the device (much like that of the Home button of an iPhone or iPod touch).

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    Access the radio. Tap the radio app on the top screen of default apps (unless you moved this app to the swiped-over 2nd screen menu before, in which case swipe to the right again and tap it).

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