So that you can pass them the phone while they call Granny and Grandad and they dont keep pressing the buttons and ending the call.

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    iOS has Guided Access which should accommodate what you’re trying to do.

    I’m sure android has something similar too.

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      Nope. The buttons in the phone app still work. Which means the kid can still mute or hold or hangup the call. Which is the problem here.

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        It’s been a while since I played with it but last I played with it you could set which areas on the screen are able to be interacted with.

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          Oh shit. I just checked and I see “session settings” which seems like it actually might work for this. I’m gonna have to try this out!

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      This. There are ways to do this they are just fairly hidden. Because if they are not inevitably people activate them by mistake and then have a rather difficult time figuring out how to turn it off again.

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      I know natively you can only pin an app (puts app on lock screen basically), but never looked if apps have this feature