{"id":7350,"date":"2020-01-02T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:14:21","slug":"use-guided-access-to-let-kids-and-others-use-your-iphone-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/use-guided-access-to-let-kids-and-others-use-your-iphone-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Guided Access to Let Kids and Others Use Your iPhone Temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s get one thing straight. You know that you should never, ever share your iPhone or iPad passcode with anyone you don\u2019t trust implicitly, like a spouse or adult child, right? That\u2019s because, with your iOS passcode, someone could change your Apple ID password, and if you use iCloud for email, completely steal or otherwise abuse your online identity. (Scared? Good. If you\u2019ve given anyone your passcode, go change it right now. We\u2019ll wait.)<\/p>\n<p>So if sharing your passcode is such a terrible idea, how do you let someone else use your iPhone or iPad temporarily? Perhaps you want to let your kid play a game in the car while you focus on tricky winter driving. Or maybe you time running races with an iPhone app and want someone to do the timing without giving them full access to your iPhone. Whatever the reason you want to give someone limited access to a single app in iOS 13, the solution is Guided Access.<\/p>\n<h3>Enabling and Configuring Guided Access<\/h3>\n<p>To turn Guided Access on, navigate to Settings &gt; Accessibility &gt; Guided Access (it\u2019s near the bottom), and flick the switch. While you\u2019re here, check out the remaining settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Passcode Settings:<\/b> Create a passcode for getting out of Guided Access here (it can be different than your normal one), and choose whether you can use Touch ID or Face ID to exit as well.<\/li>\n<li><b>Time Limits:<\/b> You don\u2019t set time limits here, but you can set audio and spoken warnings before the time runs out.<\/li>\n<li><b>Accessibility Shortcut:<\/b> Enable this if you also use triple-click for another Accessibility Shortcut like Magnifier.<\/li>\n<li><b>Display Auto-Lock:<\/b> Choose how long the device can be inactive before the screen turns off. If the Guided Access user wakes up the device, they\u2019ll still be in Guided Access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7578\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/use-guided-access-to-let-kids-and-others-use-your-iphone-temporarily-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With those settings configured, switch to the desired app and triple-click the side or Home button, and if necessary, tap Guided Access in the Accessibility Shortcut list. You can do five things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Set session-specific options:<\/b> Tap Options in the lower-right corner to access various switches. If they\u2019re disabled:\n<ul>\n<li><b>Side Button or Sleep\/Wake Button:<\/b> The user can\u2019t put the device to sleep.<\/li>\n<li><b>Volume Buttons:<\/b> The user can\u2019t change the volume.<\/li>\n<li><b>Motion:<\/b> The screen doesn\u2019t change from the orientation (portrait or landscape) it was in when you started Guided Access.<\/li>\n<li><b>Touch:<\/b> The user can\u2019t do anything with the screen at all\u2014probably most appropriate for letting a young child watch a video.<\/li>\n<li><b>Dictionary Lookup:<\/b> Prevents word lookups in some apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Set time limits:<\/b> At the bottom of the Options list, tap Time Limit and set an amount of time after which the device can\u2019t be used until you enter the Guided Access passcode.<\/li>\n<li><b>Disable specific areas on the screen:<\/b> Draw circles around parts of the screen you want to make off-limits to the user. After making a circle, you can move it by dragging it, resize it by dragging any of its handles, or remove it by tapping its X button.<\/li>\n<li><b>Start\/Resume Guided Access:<\/b> In the upper-right corner, tap Start. If you haven\u2019t yet set a passcode, you\u2019ll be prompted to do that.<\/li>\n<li><b>Exit the setup screen:<\/b> In the upper-left corner, tap End.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Using Guided Access<\/h3>\n<p>Once you tap Start, iOS tells you it\u2019s entering Guided Access and lets you use the current app with the restrictions you\u2019ve applied. If you decide that the restrictions aren\u2019t right, triple-click the side or Home button to return to the setup screen. When you\u2019re done, tap Resume in the upper-right corner.<\/p>\n<p>To leave Guided Access, triple-click the side or Home button, enter the passcode, and in the setup screen, tap End in the upper-left corner.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it! Once you understand the various limitations of Guided Access, you\u2019ll be able to turn it on and off quickly whenever you need to let someone use your iPhone or iPad for a while.<\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@moh-adbelghaffar?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mohamed Abdelgaffar<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/grayscale-photography-of-girl-using-smartphone-1701278\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never share your iPhone or iPad passcode with anyone who you don\u2019t trust implicitly. Instead, you can give people limited access to a single app with Guided Access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,69,1253,880,8,112],"tags":[126,1004,70,103],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple-consultants","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-ios-13","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac-support-ct","tag-apple-consulting-ct","tag-connecticut-mac-support","tag-mac-consulting-ct","tag-macbookpro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7359,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/7359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}