iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Introducing the iPod inside Your iPhone

To use your iPhone as an iPod, just tap the Music icon in the lower-right corner of the Home screen. At the bottom of the screen that appears, you should see five icons: Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums, and More.

If you don’t see these icons, tap the back button in the upper-left corner of the screen (the one that looks like a little arrow pointing to the left).

Or, if you’re holding your iPhone sideways (the long edges are parallel to the ground), rotate it 90 degrees so that it’s upright (the short edges are parallel to the ground).

You’ll understand why your iPhone’s orientation matters when you read the later section “Go with the Cover (Flow).”

Playlists

Tap the Playlists icon at the bottom of the screen and a list of your playlists appears. If you have no playlists on your iPhone, don’t sweat it. Just know that if you had some, this is where they’d be. (Playlists let you organize songs around a particular theme or mood: opera arias, romantic ballads, British invasion — whatever. Younger folks sometimes call them mixes.)

Tap a playlist and you see a list of the songs it contains. If the list is longer than one screen, flick upward to scroll down. Tap a song in the list and it plays. Or tap Shuffle at the top of the list to hear a song from that playlist (and all subsequent songs) at random.

That’s all there is to selecting and playing ...