If you misplace your iPod touch, the Find My iPhone app can help you locate it and protect your data. Use the Find My iPhone app on another iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch—or use the Find My iPhone web app on any Mac or PC—to locate your iPod touch on a map, lock it remotely, play a sound, display a message, or erase all its data. Find My iPhone includes a feature called Activation Lock that prevents anyone else from activating and using your iPod touch, even if it’s completely erased.
You can also use Find My iPhone to locate your AirPods, your Apple Watch, and your other iOS devices.
Note: For more information about Find My iPhone, refer to the Help in the app.
Allow Find My iPhone to locate your iPod touch. Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud, then turn on Find My iPod touch. Also turn on Send Last Location to have iPod touch send its last location prior to the battery running out. (See iCloud if you need help setting up iCloud.)
Important: To use these features, Find My iPod touch must be turned on before your iPod touch is lost. iPod touch must be able to connect to the Internet for you to locate and secure the device.
Use Find My iPhone. On iPod touch or another iOS device, open Find My iPhone. Or on a computer, go to the Find My iPhone web app. Sign in, then select the device you want to locate.
Play Sound: Play a sound at full volume for two minutes, even if the ringer is set to silent.
Lost Mode: Immediately lock your missing iPod touch with a passcode and display a custom message on the screen with a contact number. Find My iPhone also tracks and reports its location, so you can see where it’s been.
Erase iPod touch: Protect your privacy by erasing all the information and media on your iPod touch and restoring it to its original factory settings. Activation Lock prevents anyone else from activating and using your iPod touch, even after you erase it with Find My iPhone.
Before you sell or give away your iPod touch, you should completely erase it in Settings, which removes Activation Lock. The next owner can then activate and use the device normally.