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.
iOS has Guided Access which should accommodate what you’re trying to do.
I’m sure android has something similar too.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I know natively you can only pin an app (puts app on lock screen basically), but never looked if apps have this feature
Not ironically this would mess up granny and granddad when they activate it accidentally.
I want this, but not just for toddlers, just for handing over my phone to anyone really. Put on some media (photo, slideshow, video), lock your phone inputs, hand it over to someone else to look at, without having to worry that they will invade your privacy as a prank.
iOS has this with “Guided Access”. It’s in the accessibility options.
I’m on Android and android has something called app pinning, but that still allows full functionality of the open app and is thus open to abuse. I looked up the guided access system and it’s a lot better than the android method, but it seems much more convoluted to set up. I just want a simple option: you can look at what is currently playing, but touching does nothing.
Yes. My niece is alredy 4 but she discovered all the amazing filters. I cant have 1 video call without her taking the phone and using all the filters. Headache inducing
