iPod 4th Generation flashing the Apple screen

I would let your iPod's battery die. Depending on your battery health this could take a couple days. Once dead I would connect to a windows computer with the latest possible version of iTunes. It is much easier to dig into on-device files on windows. Hopefully dying and reconnecting to iTunes after will kick your device out of its boot loop or at least give you some time to get the photos off.

Other possibility is replacing the battery. This could accomplish the same task.

There is no practical way of getting any contents off the iPod if you are not logged in.

alexa_lorusso12 wrote:

whenever i do that i see the update option but i cannot click it, i do not want any data lost because I just want the pictures. I appreciate this.

Do you mean that you cannot click it or that you don't want to click it (because you're afraid of losing your pictures)?

If you mean that you don't want to click it, then since you cannot get into the iPod anyway, you might as well click it. If you do actually mean that you cannot click it, then what is the reason?

Replacing the battery may or may not help. But it is an expensive experiment. Note that if the iPod has been backed up to your computer or to iCloud you should have your photos there.

alexa_lorusso12 wrote:

will replacing the battery lose the data? i do not think it was backed up.

Sometimes the data is retained, but there is always a risk that the data will be lost when the battery is replaced.

You could try these:

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