What Is Guided Access?
Guided Access limits the iPhone or iPad to one specific app so people can’t switch to another app or return to the iPhone’s home screen. It’s useful if you use your iPhone as a display in a business context or when your child uses your iPhone and you don’t want the tyke to wreak havoc on your digital life. The tool’s various options help you stop people from accessing certain areas of the screen, impose time limits, and even limit changes to the device volume.
How to Set up Guided Access on iPhone and iPad
Follow this procedure to set up Guided Access:
How to Start and End a Guided Access Session
Use Guided Access with any app on your iPhone or iPad. It just takes a few simple steps to start up, and your iPhone will remember your favorite settings so you don’t have to redo it later.
How to Control Which Features Are Available
Guided Access doesn’t just limit parts of the screen. It includes far more powerful options, including a time-limit facility. To turn the features on or set a time limit, triple-press the Home or side button, then tap Options. Toggle the options you want to apply. You can tweak the following:
Turn off the Sleep/Wake button.Disable the volume buttons.Switch off motion so the iPhone doesn’t respond to being shaken or physically rotated.Turn off the keyboard so it never appears.Disable all touch commands so the device becomes solely a display rather than interactive.Implement a Time Limit for users.
