Transferring an iPod to a new user

Jesse Hollington
By Jesse Hollington  - Senior Editor
Transferring an iPod to a new user

Q: I have an iPod mini that I want to give to my daughter. She’s asking if she can have it instead of buying an iPod shuffle.

How will she be able to use my old iPod mini as the new owner? I have an iPod and iPhone so I really didn’t need the iPod mini, but I don’t want to mess up my iTunes account.

Transferring an iPod to a new user

– Vida

A: There is no direct association between your iPod mini and your iTunes Store account or your iTunes library beyond the content that is stored on the iPod itself.

You can return any iPod back to its original out-of-the-box factory settings simply by connecting it to iTunes and selecting the “Restore” button which appears on the main iTunes Summary screen for that iPod.

This will erase everything on the iPod, effectively reformatting its hard drive, and return it back to its factory settings.

By Jesse Hollington Senior Editor
Jesse Hollington was a Senior Editor at iLounge. He's written about Apple technology for nearly a decade and had been covering the industry since the early days of iLounge. In his role at iLounge, he provided daily news coverage, wrote and edited features and reviews, and was responsible for the overall quality of the site's content.