How to Disable an iPod Nano Cover Flow
- 1). Click the center button in the middle of the clickwheel on the fourth- or fifth-generation iPod nano and use the clickwheel to highlight "Settings." Click the center button.
- 2). Highlight "General" using the clickwheel and click the center button. Highlight "Rotate" and click the center button again.
- 3). Click the center button to toggle screen rotation from "On" to "Off." The Cover Flow feature is now disabled.
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