We aren’t getting an iPod app until Apple says so.
Retro Pod, which turns your iPhone into an iPod, amassed hundreds of thousands of downloads before it was removed from the App Store.Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge; Getty Images
Retro Pod played right into TikTok’s love affair with the iPod. From demos of defunct Minis to outfits showcasing Shuffles as hair clips, an app turning your iPhone into an iPod was naturally going to be a hit. When Retro Pod started making the round in late December,the app’s ability to replicate the iPod’s “tactile, bumpy, vibratey feels” that have been lost in the era of music streaming.
It is not confirmed why Retro Pod was removed from the App Store — neither the developer of the app nor Apple returned’s request for comment. But it is not hard to imagine that once the app blew up, Apple would not let it stand. The company has aBut Retro Pod had a good run. According to analytics firm Sensor Tower, the app received 443,000 total downloads on iOS, including 275,000 downloads in just the first week of January. It peaked“People really want it. It’s a bit of cultural heritage.
Apps recreating the iPod have cropped up a bunch of times over the years, even when iPods were common household gadgets. In 2009,
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