How to child-proof your iPhone/iPad
How to stop kids deleting your videos and photos?
Learned a new trick today and it was such a revelation to me!
Like all parents who had to hand over their iToy to the little ones from time to time, it last thing you want is your apps or photo/videos being deleted or worse still having the little ones calling random people in your contacts:)
Enter Guided Access. (General -> Accessibility -> Guided Access)
In a nutshell it enables restriction on the app you triple-click the Home button on. Not useful enough I hear you say?
The true revelation is the freehand masking of the area that you don't want the little one to touch. Simply shade off any number of area and off they go. The masking feature can only be applied after the passcode is entered and it's in a "zoomed out" mode.
Going on a weekend trip to Peak District tomorrow and look forward to trying it!
Important Tips: Make sure that while you are masking the restricted area, you rotate the phone to landscape mode and repeat the masking.
So for example the video app, mask the "Edit" at the top right corner. And for the photo app the "Select" at the top right as well as the whole bottom bar.
The feature actually recognises which button you are trying to hide so will readjust itself to neatly cover just the button. Nice touch.
And it remembers the masks for each app so you only have to do it once. Makes sense.
Learned a new trick today and it was such a revelation to me!
Like all parents who had to hand over their iToy to the little ones from time to time, it last thing you want is your apps or photo/videos being deleted or worse still having the little ones calling random people in your contacts:)
Enter Guided Access. (General -> Accessibility -> Guided Access)
In a nutshell it enables restriction on the app you triple-click the Home button on. Not useful enough I hear you say?
The true revelation is the freehand masking of the area that you don't want the little one to touch. Simply shade off any number of area and off they go. The masking feature can only be applied after the passcode is entered and it's in a "zoomed out" mode.
Going on a weekend trip to Peak District tomorrow and look forward to trying it!
Important Tips: Make sure that while you are masking the restricted area, you rotate the phone to landscape mode and repeat the masking.
So for example the video app, mask the "Edit" at the top right corner. And for the photo app the "Select" at the top right as well as the whole bottom bar.
The feature actually recognises which button you are trying to hide so will readjust itself to neatly cover just the button. Nice touch.
And it remembers the masks for each app so you only have to do it once. Makes sense.
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