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In a press release outlining entertainment options on the Vision Pro, Apple also briefly highlighted Guest User and Travel Mode features on the headset.

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With the Guest User mode, you can let family and friends use your Vision Pro with limited access to certain apps, such as Photos and Safari. Apple says the primary user's Apple ID account settings, Optic ID, passcode, passwords, Apple Pay, Persona, and health data will be restricted while the Guest User mode is active.

Guest User mode was discovered last year in the visionOS simulator, part of Apple's app development tool Xcode. Once the mode is turned on, it will automatically shut off if the headset is not worn within five minutes, the simulator showed.

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When turned on via Control Center, Apple says Travel Mode stabilizes visuals on the Vision Pro for users wearing the headset on an airplane. Travel Mode was first discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser last year in visionOS beta code, with more details about this feature outlined in our coverage at the time.

In fine print related to Travel Mode, Apple warns that the Vision Pro should obviously not be used while operating a moving vehicle.

Vision Pro can be pre-ordered in the U.S. starting Friday, January 19 at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, and it launches on Friday, February 2.

Article Link: Apple Highlights Guest and Travel Modes on Vision Pro
 
I’m glad they thought of this. I was beginning to think there was going to be no way to show this off to someone else without letting them go through all your stuff with zero supervision. Bad luck for people with glasses, though.

Also how long before someone violates that warning and drives while wearing one? Surely on launch day, right?
 
So are we just gonna act like Apple isn’t gonna sell bigger battery packs? Do we really think Apple would knowingly make a device that they want you to take on a plane only have an optimistic 2 hours of battery life?
 
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Until Vision Pro efficiency (or amped up battery) can handle 6 hours on a plane, it’s a non-starter for most.

My second Mac in the early 2000s was a Powerbook G4 with a whopping 2-hour battery life. And was I ever a road warrior in those days! Since I was flying all the time and wanted to use my Mac to get work done, I did the craziest possible thing: I bought a few more battery packs to turn 2 hours into 6+ hours, which was long enough to cover about any of my flights back then. No problems. No issues. Just a consumer taking action to make tech he wanted to use on long flights work in the way he wanted to use it.

I know. I know. What a crazy thing to do!
 
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Further proof that Apple never bothered to integrate a Guest Mode into iPadOS to sell iPads to each family members while you can’t expect a family to buy multiple Vision Pro at 3,5k each
Yup. Apple could have easily integrated this on iPads or even multiple user accounts. But you don't make money like that. 😉
 
Further proof that Apple never bothered to integrate a Guest Mode into iPadOS to sell iPads to each family members while you can’t expect a family to buy multiple Vision Pro at 3,5k each
Maybe they’ll add a Guest Mode for the upcoming $1800+ iPad Pro. ;)
 
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