I feel that there isn't enough attention paid to "infant and toddler mode" on smart phones. There's a lot of attention paid to "child mode" via parental controls, but that's pretty different.
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I've also been really surprised at how easily
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The main difference between the baby mode I want and the child mode that exists is that baby mode is less about controlling screen time and age appropriateness, and more about a focused mode that avoids mistakes.
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I can easily control his access at a coarse grain at this age, but at a fine grain he can do a whole lot of stuff in matter of seconds more or less by accident.
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Example: in normal mode (including child mode) it's very important for 911 to be as easy as possible. In baby mode, I don't want 911 anywhere at all.
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Babies don't have anything useful to do with notification shades, so I'd rather they be hidden.
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@WyKittens, at least, knows how to select apps from the home screen, so I do want to let him do that (once I winnow the list down). Android's separation of home screen from whole list is great here, and I wish I could hide "all apps" from him.Show this thread -
I also wish I could hide Google Now in Baby Mode (rather than just making it appear and say it's disabled via parental controls).
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Finally, I think that Android Family Link is a great starting point for all of these features, and if it had a Baby Mode (rather than just a parental controls child mode) I'd be in heaven.
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Have you tried guideded access? You can use accessibility settings to enable it with a triple home click.
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Yeah, I'm looking into it now. It's so much more complicated but probably worth it.
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Guided access on iOS is awesome. You get to set the access level and for how long. And so seamless if using touch id
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The controls could be better implemented. But iOS does have a “kiosk mode” under General -> Accessibility -> Guided Access you can disable the button. Triple click to engage plus pin code to exit.
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