Still no way to hide settings?

[Soundburst]

Surely this isn't the case?

Every morning my little brothers iPad will have text to speech, inverted colours, and a whole host of other accessibility options pressed that take a good ten mins to sort out.

All of which could be solved by being able to hide the settings app.

Anyone have any tips?

 

[Floris]

Set a pin/passphrase to your ipad, and make sure his fingerprint isn't one of the allowed fingers for touchid.
That way he can't use it without your permission. Plain and simple.

But no, there's not a restriction for accessibility or settings app.

 

[TETENAL]

If there were a setting in Settings to hide Settings, how would you unhide it again?

And why do you care what settings your brother is changing on his iPad?

 

[pika2000]

I'm guessing it's because it's accessible through triple clicking the home button. Try disabling that.
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility shortcut (way at the bottom). Uncheck all of them.

 

[Soundburst]

I'm guessing it's because it's accessible through triple clicking the home button. Try disabling that.
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility shortcut (way at the bottom). Uncheck all of them.

Thank you for the useful answer.

It's a huge oversight by Apple.

The settings App is home to MANY MANY MANY customisable options - which he shouldn't be able to mess with - he should be playing his maths and science games. . . .and yet he's in messing around changing settings that an adult should be in control of.

Setting's app should be pin protected at the very least.

 

[CTHarrryH]

sounds as if with his interests some day he will be a billionaire computer wizard and then you'll thank Apple for no hiding or protecting settings.
Knowing kids - if that were hidden he'd find some other method of doing something other than what he should be.

 

[Small White Car]

You want to use Guided Access:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612

This will lock the iPad into a single app until someone with the password switches to another one.

It does sound like you want to give him access to multiple apps at once but, honesty, if he's not old enough to handle the settings app then I'd argue he's not old enough to be switching between random apps on his own and you should be staying in control of which app he's using at any given time.

The link above will tell you how to do it.

 

[KALLT]

Thank you for the useful answer.

It's a huge oversight by Apple.

The settings App is home to MANY MANY MANY customisable options - which he shouldn't be able to mess with - he should be playing his maths and science games. . . .and yet he's in messing around changing settings that an adult should be in control of.

Setting's app should be pin protected at the very least.

Small White Car has the best solution you can hope for in this case. If the device is owned by a child or a person with a disability then you want to use the restrictions and accessibility settings. Young children shouldn't use these devices completely unattended anyway, especially if they really don't understand how they work.

 

[S.T.A.R.]

you should be staying in control of which app he's using at any given time.

The parents should be.

 

[pika2000]

Thank you for the useful answer.

It's a huge oversight by Apple.

The settings App is home to MANY MANY MANY customisable options - which he shouldn't be able to mess with - he should be playing his maths and science games. . . .and yet he's in messing around changing settings that an adult should be in control of.

Setting's app should be pin protected at the very least.

I don't think he intentionally went to the settings. Like I said, by default, those options to invert colors and enable voice over is easily accessible by triple clicking the home button, which anyone can accidentally do. After triple liking the home button, those options are simply a tap away. So before getting too upset, just disable that and see if the problem persists.

I do agree in a sense that by now, Apple should have some sort of "kid mode" for iOS (or a simple setting to have a specific home screen with just few apps you set beforehand). Guided access is not really a solution in this case.

 

[KALLT]

Like I said, by default, those options to invert colors and enable voice over is easily accessible by triple clicking the home button, which anyone can accidentally do.

Are you sure? I don't think the accessibility shortcuts are enabled by default.

 

[pika2000]

Are you sure? I don't think the accessibility shortcuts are enabled by default.

It was on my iPad. :shrug: In any case, it seems to be a likely culprit vs the kid going to the setting and navigate the menus.