

To give you one more example: why disabling the Home button on the iPad can be useful here’s a simple way how my wife and I use Guided Access in our home with our two-year-old.

A tool I see not only helping students to stay focus, but also preventing them from easily getting distracted. Keeping students engaged in their current activity until they are ready to move on to the next lesson. When you disable the Home button and limit access to areas of the screen teachers can reduce distractions in the classroom. Now there’s no need to worry that someone will turn off a presentation demo or accidentally touch the wrong thing on the screen if you need to leave the iPad unattended.Īnd in the classroom, the impact will be greatly appreciated by both students and teachers. For example, sales and marketing professionals who work at trade shows, conferences, and fairs and use the iPad to promote their products and services should also see this as a huge opportunity. There are other areas, and markets where disabling the home button is sure to be a big hit. But parents alone are not the only folks who should welcome this new addition to iOS 6. Touch access can also restrict certain areas of the screen.įrom the above description, it’s clear that other parents like myself will find this new feature most helpful.Guided Access – allows any iOS device to be locked into one app until a preset Passcode is used to escape.But first, let me give you a brief explanation of what is Guided Access. Let’s take a look at a few examples showing the benefit of disabling the Home button on the iPad, (or iPhone). In this post, I’ll explain why the option to disable the Home Button on the iPad is a great thing and then proceed by walking you through a step-by-step guide showing how to do it. To see my insights on this conference read: OS X Mountain Lion Is A Social Cat, How Apple Is Using Social Media I can disable the Home button and restrict touch input on certain areas on the screen when my 2-year-old plays on the iPad, this is part of the Accessibility option. And just one of the many new features I’ve been looking forward to seeing on the iPad when iOS 6 previewed during the 2012 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Guided Access is one of my favorite iOS 6 features.
