Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ...
by nitemice on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:15PM
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Your last use-case is sort of covered by Android's screen pinning feature[0]. You have to enable it in settings, but it's useful, and seems to work well.
[0] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6118421?hl=en This link is for Nexus, but I think it's included in all version of Android since 5.0 Lollipop.
Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ...
by Nition on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:22PM
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iOS has this too, it's called Guided Access.
Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ...
by nkkollaw on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:52PM
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iOS lets you block access to a single app, so that even if they click the home button they can't go anywhere else.
Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ...
by david_shaw on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:21PM
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I hadn't heard of that. How do you use this feature?
Re:The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is ...
by david_shaw on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:23PM
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Awesome. Thank you!
You're right. But I still think I would buy my kid their own iPad even if my iPhone/iPad had a kid mode. My kid has their own iPad and I still find times when it would be ideal to give them access to the basic features on my phone/ipad. Frankly, if iOS just added the ability to password protect any app then that would be good enough, and it would be useful for more than kids... hand you phone to a coworker or relative to look at photos they can't accidentally/intentionally hop over to your email.