Parents beware: with this simple function you can make your iPhone or iPad toddler-proof

Even if you say so loudly before birth that you will never put an iPhone or iPad under your child’s nose, even before your child blows out his first candle, those principles have often been thrown overboard long ago. A screen as a sweetener for your whining toddler is simply very handy.

Of course you try to limit your child’s screen time, but if you are in the waiting room of the dentist, or in a crowded restaurant, then your iPhone or iPad is just the solution to keep your child busy.

Make iPhone or iPad toddler-proof

So if you are one of those parents (and you are), who sometimes gives an iPhone or iPad to their toddler to play with. Then you also know how handy (or should we say; clumsy) those minis are with that. A little swiping is nothing for the average toddler.

As a result, half your apps have been deleted, some random characters have been sent in the group app, or a charming toddler selfie has been sent to your boss. Well, it is of course very nice to have such a touchscreen, but in combination with inquisitive toddler hands, it is not such a success.

Guided access

Do you also regularly suffer from this? Then we now have the perfect solution for you. Or rather, Apple has it for you. With the guided access function you can lock your touchscreen so that your child can do nothing more than watch the Peppa Pig episode of your choice on Netflix, for example.

You can also control which features are available for each specific app through Guided Access. For example, hardware buttons such as the volume buttons can also be disabled.

Enable Guided Access on iPhone or iPad

Now, of course, you want to know how to enable Guided Access. That’s very simple:

• Open Settings
• Tap on Accessibility
• Scroll down to Guided access
• Switch Guided Access in

Then you go to the app where you want to use Guided Access. For example Netflix or YouTube. You then press the side button three times (or the home button on devices without Face ID). You can then select a portion of the screen (or the whole screen) to deactivate, you will see it turn gray.

You can draw this yourself with your finger, so you can also leave parts of the screen active. Handy for games! You can optionally choose to disable other functions at the bottom left under options.

Then you can press start at the top right. The first time it will ask you to enter an access code. If you then want to disable Guided Access, press the side button (or home button) three times again and enter the access code. Piece of cake!

You can also not select anything and press start directly, your child cannot leave the app, but all functions of the app itself will work. You can see an example of this in the video below.

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