Using the iPod touch 6 in 2021 - Review

Apologies for the delay between uploads lately, been busy - but I had a lot of fun taking a look back at my old iPod 6, a device really not much different from the 7th generation. Do you think we'll ever see a proper upgrade to the iPod touch line?
Thanks to @winctech (his twitter) for help with a few of the shots in this video! He's the guy at 15:18 :)

You don’t need an iPod touch 6 when you can get a 2 TB Classic Dankpod.

I've essentially converted my 5s to an iPod touch. It works quite well and plays some games too. I called it the iPod touch 5.5th gen in the settings

Apple has pretty much just sold the 5th gen with the occasional spec bump
At least the design has held up well these past 9+ years

This made me think of my ipod; my 4th gen is still working pretty well to this day ❤️ super mega heavy use all throughout high school but now it's enjoying retirement. I give it the occasional jam out, and scroll through pics sometimes. We call it the time capsule. ✨

They're basically only updating the iPod Touch when the iphone which the current iPod Touch's chipset is based on is about to lose iOS support. AKA only when they absolutely have to.

Keep these sort of Apple Retrospective videos coming and don’t change a damn thing, I cant get enough of these I’ve watched all of them in a few days lol

iPod Touch 7 is my primary eBook reader. It’s so light that I can hold it forever.

I bought mine almost two years ago for listening to music at work with, the size is perfect because it’s profile is small enough to fit in the screen of our work handhelds so they never know if I am watching KRplus or whatever, it’s great

Great review! I gotta say I love the outro theme music. I find my self listening to that beat more than once after your reviews. Then I get mad when I hit the forward or back arrow and it leaves the video lol and I have to search for the theme again lol.

I find it funny considering that my music library has 41GB of music saved, more than the entire storage of the the iPod Touch. I'd definitely need the extra storage tiers. It'd be nice if the iPod touch had an FM tuner like the iPod nanos did. I got my dad a 7th gen iPod Touch for him to listen and stream music while at work and it seems to work just fine.

I remember when this thing was a new little oddity. I still have mine. Can’t believe it’s getting a “Using this device in X year” video already.

i literally just bought a 3rd gen iPod touch a couple of months ago, I still love it

Watching this on my touch 7! And wow I love this thing. I feel like it’s the most misunderstood device in the apple lineup. I use it exactly like my phone (mostely same apps but more music) and I use it more than my phone because of its small size!

Lets gooooo brooo.
Grettings from mexico bro, i lov your videos!

I bought one last year so that I could enjoy the features of an iPhone without the distraction of constant connectivity. Great way to stay off the grid for a few hours at a time without turning into a Luddite.

Josh’s videos are the best for iPhone users without a home button because he uses a resolution that allows us to watch things using most of the screen without zooming in.

I kept my iPod 5th gen with IOS 6! It’s in pristine condition and I only use it for music. I love the OS! It’s so light and perfect. The battery life tends to still last me for about a week!

Hi, from Paraguay 🇵🇾 🙌🏻
Very good videos I always watch them ✌🏻👏🏻

I got one in 2016 to replace my ancient iPhone 4 when I was 15 before I had a phone plan. I ended up retiring it as my primary when I cracked it in 2017 and got a 6s, but it’s since been restored with parts from a locked one, and still sees occasional use.

i have one of these thats bent at like a 5+ degree angle (looks wild in person), but ive continued to use it for years while doing bike stuff and its still a champ

Had a 16gb iPod touch back in 2014, introduced me to iOS and I’ve been using apple devices ever since

Ah the silver circle for me was a fidget toy lol

Keep it up bro love your vids

I still use mine, this video sums it up very well.

I still have and use my IPod 6 and it’s just such a nice companion to my IPhone. I love it

Nice! I bought my 6th Gen Silver iPod Touch in October 2016. It still runs perfectly on iOS 12.4.8! The only problem is how the battery acts wonky due to calibration issues. It's still an awesome device to this day!👍

I have the 6th gen myself. I just use it for music. It worx fantastically for just music. It still looks brand new. It's had a case and a screen protector on it all these years. About the battery, it is trash. If the screen is off battery life isn't that bad lol. Gr8 vid. 📱

I was looking for a video on the iPod 6 on your channel I could not find one then I looked on your channel later and I found this video on the iPod 6 it's like you read my mind

This young man has such a good grasp on production and presentation. Josh, I enjoy your channel for its relevant content and mostly your delivery of the info. You have a bright future ahead. Creative and talented. 👍

I use the iPod touch 6 on a daily basis alongside my iPhone 11 Pro. I love the super slim form factor, but yep, you gotta have the airplane mode constantly on (you can turn on WiFi with airplane mode so it’s not thaaaat bad)

11:09 2013 Mac Pro: hold my beer

I bought my Ipod Touch 6th Generation in January 2018 just for the Camera.
Going from my Ipod Touch 2nd Generation to 6th Gen is a HUGE UPGRADE for me lol.
I was like "Omg, the Ipod has a camera now?? I need to buy this!"
And I did. 🙂
I use the Flashlight feature alot.

Imagine apple making an iPod with specs like the iPhone 11 but with a much better audio codec trying to solidify its audio roots.

im not sure if i had a 6th gen or 7th gen ipod but i remember regularly usign that.

I use an iPod 7 for entertainment and love it but I also really just like how powerful it is for what it is, next to my 2nd gen SE I can’t tell much difference in performance. Let’s hope those iPod 8 rumors are true! Me I think if they kept the same design just make it thicker 👍🏼

I use my iPod touch 6 literally just for podcasts I like the iOS 12 podcast app design more than the current one

July 30 2022. I have an iPod touch I think it's either 6 or 7 generation and I still use mine till this day. I like using it because first it still works and it holds a lot of music. I use it when there's parties in my house and I put all my music on there and just take my Bluetooth speaker and it works great. Or if I want to go in the car and I don't have a CD player because it's an older model car I can attach it via Bluetooth and you sit there so there's still some usage for it.

I have had the iPod 6th gen since Dec 2017 and have Been using it as my main device until FINALLY June of this year I finally got an iPhone

It's 2022 I still have mine it looks brand new And battery life is good!

Hey love your videos

Apple should make an internet based iPod classic that allows for Apple Music integration😩

I have an iPod touch 4 that is basically a car iPod that still chugs along. Battery isn’t too bad either. You could use it for a days worth of errands

At the time I really wanted a 4.7 or even 5.5 inches iPod Touch, with 6S / 6S Plus like battery life and still featuring a headphone jack. When this iPod Touch came out I was disappointed and bought an iPad Air 2 to replace my iPod Touch 4G.

Hello from my iPod 6! Still use it a lot for watching KRplus and listening to music in bed so I don't have to take my main phone in there. A little slow but it works perfectly fine... as long as you keep the charger plugged in haha

I have a 7th gen 128gb and a really large music library. It was new in box but not from Apple so only $30 more than the 32gb model. I keep all social media and messaging (I have an Android phone) off it. It's for when I don't want distraction.

using an ipod touch gen 5 here as a gaming device (for older games)
still waiting for someone to make a smartphone of similar mass with this build quality

The current iPod touch 7th gen is so great! I have three!

iPod 6 was my first apple product. It’s ver nostalgic for me

i have a ipod touch 5g 16gb with no back camera and i remember playing the walking dead on it and it ran surprisingly well and it had decent battery life.

Talking about the iPhone 6, my grandpa still uses it and it's still reasonably fast (obviously not incredibly) and works more than fine for him, but his iPad 2 has speaker issues...

always wanted one of those but I stuck around with the nano 5 and 7

If you're giving it to a kid is a data plan for a phone really necessary? When i was younger my parents just got me a prepaid sim that i used with whatever phone they bought, i mostly received calls so they rarely added balance too

I had an iPod touch 6th gen 16GB and 128GB , now I’ve got the iPod touch 7th gen 256GB its great

Love all I pod touches

Watching this video after I bought my 5 yr old son a refurbished ipod touch 6. I’m hoping for the best when I get it. He destroyed his ipod touch 7 so I really didn’t wanna spend too much money for a replacement. Mostly uses it for youtube kids

back in high school days the new ipod touch "itouch" line wsa always exciting. Going from gen1 to gen2 was super dope. Then gen 3 was eh but it got better specs. Gen 4 finally got a camera and was like woah. 5 was back to meh but better specs and now 6 and 7 are ok, but not needed since its all about phones. But at the start they rolled them out every year or other year and it was awesome. I just regret buying my gen3 64gb refurb but mint..from apple for like 330 bucks i think or maybe 360 actually. Because within a month or 2 later they brought out the gen4 with a camera and obviously it was like 399. So i got the prior year model, almost near full price and they release the new one. Thats like getting last years iphone right before the new one and paying the near full price tag. Then youre just like meh, and a bit pissed.

I still want this. I love iPods.

I’ve got the same gold, I use it when I’m on do not disturb

I legit forgot this existed LOOOOL

I still got those I used to play temple run on it 😂

I used to use one of these for a year before upgrading to an iPhone 6s, about a year after that, I looked back at it and it seemed to run really well, but the battery wasn’t great, even though it was ok when I was using it daily.

I love iPod touch❤️

I have a 7th gen on iOS 15 beta, it's ok. Camera isn't awful, just in the dark. It's good enough for some people. My 6th gen however, is only 3 and a half years old and it's practically dead. Jailbreaking can really bring these things back to life, if you have a bettery pack on you as life support for the iPod

I’ve reached the point in my life where I actually need 128GB or above in my iOS devices. My Spotify library alone takes up over 38GB

Love it videos

Honestly having traded for a basically new iPod touch 7 I have to say that the battery life really isn’t that bad for it’s size, I can easily get 4-6 hours watching KRplus or anime from 100% and still have at least 10% to 15% left

I have (and am on right now!) a iPod touch 6, I got it a year past launch, and have kept using it since. In my opinion, this is the best apple product for a few reason. It was 250$ cad when I got it, and it has lasted me longer then any other apple product I’ve had. Coupled with the griffin survivor slim case it is small, perfect, and nearly indestructible. This thing has been hit by a sledgehammer twice (one of my old no longer friends tried to destroy it behind my back to get back at me for... something? F you, Chris) and it came out with just a tiny dent on the back. That was three years ago, and I have had no resulting problems since. On the subject of the battery, it lasts me 2-3 hours of constant use, but it can easily last me the whole day using it sparsely. Charging it at night just works for me perfectly, and even though I have a newer phone now my iPod touch still remains my daily at-home driver. Out and about my newer phone takes charge, of course. I use my iPod mostly for reading and music, and it just does spectacularly at both. Highly recommended, get either this or the seven with a cheaper android phone like the moto g power or stylus and you have a very good, not overpriced, fleshed out experience. It just works.

3:00 what’s up with that iPhone 6? That camera on that 6 looks so odd. Is it a genuine iPhone 6 or a clone of some sort?

I hope they make another ipod touch but with chassis as the iphone 12 and of course a bigger screen with decent specs

The iPod touch 5th generation is my favourite ipod touch. Why? Because it featured the wristband, which I wish it could be used for my iPhone 14

It can be a simple phone with VoIP apps like Talkatone and Google Voice, among others. Importantly, you cannot make emergency calls via VoIP at this point.

I have 2 used iPod touch 6 that I bought only a few months ago, so I was thinking about maybe selling these and upgrading to iPod touch 7, but then yeah these two works good anyways, definitely not the best at it but it can play music for hours as long as the screen isn’t turned on, so I’m using it to just play music the whole day and it just lasts. I don’t know if it is worth upgrading tho since I only use it to play music

I actually have the same color! gold. isn't that awesome?

watching this on my iPod 6th :)

iPod touch 6 is the one that I regularly use today because it's the only one i have

Who's the good looking dude at 15:14

I had and have this device but i thought i had a malfunction with mine, the battery would jump from like 60 to 30 in the snap of a finger.

Do I see Vancouver in the background 👀?

hi, can we used ipod that already have old owner id..

I used the iPod 6 as my only device for like 4 years

This was my first apple product. I still have it and i just use it to to watch and consume content, but it has to be plugged on because the battery is already so bad.

I hope they're planning on making Ipod Touch 8 with the iPhone 12 design..

same. i thought my batt just got bad overtime but I barely use it and when I finally decided to fill it up with downloaded music, it dies on me. shame.

Still cannot believe I’m the only one from Gen Z to not remember these…

1:43 Whoa, you can upgrade yourself as a human? Wow, this must be the new Real Life update everyone’s been talking about.

I'm not sure what the Canadian prices are but in NZ the 128gb version of the current gen iPod is $550, the 256gb is $750!; yes $NZ but that's what we have. So not really cheap. I suspect these are still in demand for playing music in older cars, of which we have a lot over here, & for (mainly older?) people who just can't afford or don't need a cell phone plan.

this is the first time im early for a 91tech video, i should come up with something creative 🤔

My iPod touch 2g still works great

OMG THAT WAS MY 1ST IPOd

Apple should use the iPod touch to compete with the GABB phone that would be interesting

Watching this on my IPod

I miss the polished chamfered edges

I actually still have my iPod touch 6 from when i was a kid

Apple would make millions if they went back to the iPod Classic.
Also makes sense because it has a clear distinct purpose from something where you can run apps.

I’m watching this video on my iPod 6. :)

Bro my dad had one and I’m checking if it will sell for a good proce

I used to have this but It was the time to upgrade since it crashed on my games

what's that black shaped pill the back of it

I'm shocked the 6 is the most sold Touch ever! I would've expected that to be the 5, really, because they had that sick Bounce ad. Like yeah it was sold the longest but I'm surprised more people bought it than the 5
Maybe just because I have a huge nostalgia to the 5 because of that Bounce ad, but I don't have a 6 yet 😂