practical tip you'll probably hear WAY too much in these comments -- when we need one of our phones in "baby mode" (car rides, trying to distract her while trimming her nails, etc.), we set our phones to take a selfie (either picture or video) and then lock it on that screen using the accessibility / guided access feature which basically disables all of the touch and button functionality. it's an AMAZING parent hack. there's a few articles on this if you google "baby phone guided access", i think i saw it on instagram? here's a decent video walking through the settings steps you'd need to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Oo_32jBzQ
Before I disabled the ability to use Siri to call my kid used to call and text from my phone. She also once disabled my iPad for 2,000 minutes. Not sure if thatās a record? Iāve been able to lock my phone down pretty well now, it requires me to lock at it and pay attention to really do anything.
I realized we were living in a digital world when my then 1.5 year old tried to swipe an actual picture frame.
I have no idea how but mine does the same thing. I hand it to her locked and when I get it backed it somehow is no longer locked....
We do have an old phone that is purely "her phone" though that I do try to trade her my phone for in these occasions. It's an iphone using a fake account that we only use as her baby monitor (with a pop socket stand) and the occasional ms rachel or elmo jam and her own spotify lists.
practical tip you'll probably hear WAY too much in these comments -- when we need one of our phones in "baby mode" (car rides, trying to distract her while trimming her nails, etc.), we set our phones to take a selfie (either picture or video) and then lock it on that screen using the accessibility / guided access feature which basically disables all of the touch and button functionality. it's an AMAZING parent hack. there's a few articles on this if you google "baby phone guided access", i think i saw it on instagram? here's a decent video walking through the settings steps you'd need to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Oo_32jBzQ
Her conversation with Josh šš Iām dyyying!
It never fails to make me laugh.
Before I disabled the ability to use Siri to call my kid used to call and text from my phone. She also once disabled my iPad for 2,000 minutes. Not sure if thatās a record? Iāve been able to lock my phone down pretty well now, it requires me to lock at it and pay attention to really do anything.
I realized we were living in a digital world when my then 1.5 year old tried to swipe an actual picture frame.
TWO THOUSAND MINUTES?!?!?
I have no idea how but mine does the same thing. I hand it to her locked and when I get it backed it somehow is no longer locked....
We do have an old phone that is purely "her phone" though that I do try to trade her my phone for in these occasions. It's an iphone using a fake account that we only use as her baby monitor (with a pop socket stand) and the occasional ms rachel or elmo jam and her own spotify lists.