Apple iPhone - Manage Guided Access Settings
Here's how to limit app / screen access or button presses on your iPhone.
Guided Access limits your Apple® iPhone® to a single app, allows users to disable areas of the screen which aren't relevant to the task and disables the Home, Power and Volume buttons.
- Ensure Guided Access is turned on.
- Open an app, then triple press the side button (right-side).For iPhones with a Home button, open an app then quickly triple press theHome button(at the bottom).
- Using your finger, circle areas of the screen to disable.
- TapOptions.
- Tap any of the available switches (e.g., Sleep / Wake Button, Keyboards, etc.) to turn the following on or off then tapDone.
- TapStart.
- If prompted, to 'Set Passcode':
- Enter a passcode.
- Re-enter passcode.
- To end a session for iPhones without a Home button, triple press the side button, enter passcode then tapEnd.For iPhones with a Home button, quickly triple press the Home button, enter passcode then tapEnd.
- To remove previously set restrictions from an active session:
- Quickly swipe up from the bottom of the screen.For iPhones with a Home button, triple press theHome button.
- Enter 4-digit passcode.
- Tap theX symbolnext to any areas of the screen that have been disabled.
- TapOptions.
- Ensure the desired option switches are turned on then tapDone.
- TapEnd.