Has your child been in the middle of a game, only to touch the home button then get back to the home screen and suddenly all your apps are bouncing and ready to be deleted?
1. Go to
Settings on your iPhone or iPAD
2. Go to
General, then choose
Accessibility
3. In
Accessibility, find the selection box under
Learning titled
Guided Access; you will want to turn this
ON.
4. You will need to set a passcode. (Now if you have older kids this might not be the solution you are looking for, but also with older kids they are probably not constantly clicking the home button. No matter the age it is nice to block off those annoying ads)
5. Once that is on go back to the
Accessibility screen by tapping Accessibility at the top-left corner of the screen. Make sure Guided Access is selected for
Triple-click the home Button.
6. Now that guided access is enabled. Open up any app you want your child to play with. Triple click the home button and a new screen pops up that allows you to adjust the guided access for that specific app
At the bottom of the screen, you have the option to turn
hardware buttons off, turn
touch on or off (I leave this on as the game needs to be able to touch around within the app) and
motion on or off (I also leave this on). While in guided access, if you circle any area a grayed out box will appear, as shown in the picture above (see the little box with a small “x” on top-left corner). This area will now become unclickable when guided access is turned on. This is a great tool to use over those annoy ads or maybe the play/pause buttons of a movie app. If you want to change this grey coverage, there is a little ‘x’ you can click to delete that selection and make a new selection. Once all your settings are the way you want them, select the blue
Start button at the top-right corner and the app will resume as normal.
7. When your child is finished playing with that app, you triple click your home button, but this time since guided access is turned on you have to put in your passcode. Once you type in your passcode you can select End if you are finished, or make changes and select resume to continue with the guided access on. After you hit end you are able to click the home button and return to your home screen.
Article ID: 88, Created On: 9/18/2013, Modified: 11/15/2013