How to limit/restrict access to apps ?
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Hodarik • June 20, 2015 at 11:24am
Hi,
I would like to know if there are means, on iPhone (iPad), to restrict, limit or deny access to certain apps (if not all) other than the main password. I am not talking about those apps that allow hiding files (pictures, contacts, videos, ... ) like secure folders and others.
For example, you request to use my phone to make a call. I unlock it and allow you to go ahead. How could I make sure, you won't be able to read my mails, read my messages (iMessages), see who I am talking to on FaceTime, ...
Please, help me on that one!!!!
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saeedss82 • June 30, 2015 at 3:21pm
Simply go to Setting>General>Restrictions:
here you can Enable it and restrict any app you want with another specific password so it is not the unlock screen password, and you can give it to anybody even for a day! Not just minutes, but they will never access to those things you have chosen to be restricted!
here you can Enable it and restrict any app you want with another specific password so it is not the unlock screen password, and you can give it to anybody even for a day! Not just minutes, but they will never access to those things you have chosen to be restricted!
Guided Access may help you do what you're trying to do:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/111795/stickmanhookonline.io
Use Guided Access with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
As an Apple shareholder, I would strongly object to Apple's spinning their wheels to add any further restriction capability (beyond the already existing Restrictions) to lock up apps on what is designed to be a single-user machine. I would much rather encourage them to spend their research and development on adding new capabilities, not new restriction mechanisms. — • November 10, 2025 at 9:44am