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Did you know that you can turn your
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iPhone essentially into a dumb phone
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that has a limited number of apps and no
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internet usage? There is no access to
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Safari, no access to social media apps,
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no access to YouTube. You make calls,
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use the camera, send and receive
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messages, access your photos,
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calculator, calendar, clock, compass,
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and your contacts. That's it. That's all
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you get access to. And you do not need a
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third party app to do this. Any iPhone
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running iOS 17 and newer can be turned
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into a dumb phone like this. Come with
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Here is my iPhone regular interface. To
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turn this to a dumb phone, go into your
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settings. Scroll down to accessibility
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and then scroll down till you see
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assistive access. When you enter into
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assistive access, setup assistive
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access. What does it do? It provides a
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distinctive iOS experience for iPhone.
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Apps have been redesigned to be larger
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and contain core features that can be
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easily customized. After setting up
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assistive access, you can make changes
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at any time in settings. So, what it
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does is gives you a different graphical
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interface with large icons that work
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well for visually impaired people, older
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citizens, and children.
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And you can restrict whatever apps you
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want. So for example, if you want to
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give your child a phone to use and give
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them no access to internet enabled apps
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like the browser, like Siri, like social
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media, YouTube. Yes, assistive access
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does that. It turns the phone into a
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dumb phone. So let's set up assistive
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Select apps and customize options for
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the person who will be using assistive
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access on this phone. Continue.
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These apps are optimized for assistive
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access by default. I'm adding calls
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and you say receive calls from
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favorites, from contacts, from anyone.
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For example, if you're giving your child
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this phone, you can restrict the calls
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to only favorites. And then the
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favorites will include your number,
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their teachers number, schools,
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emergency contact, the other partner,
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any other person that you'd love your
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child to receive calls from and to make
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calls to so that your child really
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cannot call just about anyone. You want
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a restriction on who your child who can
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access your child, which has its
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benefits in some ways, but it's really
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customizable. Receive calls from
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favorites, make calls to favorites only.
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And then you go in here to select those
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favorite numbers and add them
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in call options. Do you want them to be
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able to use a keypad to type a number to
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call off head? Do you want them to be
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able to enable speaker? I think it
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but again, do what works for you. So,
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we've selected calls.
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We're going to add the camera.
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It's asking for options. Photo, photo,
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selfie, video selfie. It doesn't hurt to
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put everything in there. Messages. Yes.
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receive messages. Again, you want to
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restrict who your child can message, it
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works great. Send messages to favorites.
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And then you go in there to select
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Depending on who is using the phone, if
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it's um someone with visual impairment
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who needs help reading messages, you can
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say tap to hear message. So, the message
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is read out to the person, conversation
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details, blah blah blah blah blah. It's
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all in there. Pick the options that work
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for you. So, we've added messages,
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photos. We want them to be able to see
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what photos they have taken. So, that
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A calculator doesn't hurt. Calendar
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So, for the purpose of this setup, we're
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going to just stop at this app. Now,
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we're ready. Continue.
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Set up apps. Make sure apps are ready to
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use. Blah blah blah. So for example, if
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we selected contacts, we need to have
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added the account whether it's an Apple
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account or it's a Google account that
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the contacts are synchronized to so that
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they are all ready for use before we
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proceed from here. Any app that requires
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an account to function properly needs to
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have been set up before we proceed.
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Continue. Here we are again.
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We can pick grid. Let's pick grid.
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There are some differences in how iOS
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features work in assistive mode,
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etc. These are details you should read.
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Confirm. Assistive access user knows
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this phone's passcode. Face ID and the
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passcode have been set up for the
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iPhone. confirm that the primary driver
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of this phone can authenticate with face
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ID and they also know the passcode. So
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this is about face ID and the phone
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passcode not the assistive access
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You want to give the user of the phone
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some measure of security. Configure them
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for face ID and let them set up their
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own passcode for the phone. not the
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passcode you're using or you are going
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to use for assistive access. So you can
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change the security settings here if you
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don't have Face ID and a phone passcode
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Now the assistive access passcode. This
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is the passcode that will be used to
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enter and exit assistive access. If you
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are giving this phone to a child, you do
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not want them to know the passcode you
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are setting up here. They need to know
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the phone passcode. They need to have
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face ID set for themselves. But this
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code that you are going to set here only
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you and your other spouse or partner or
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authority figure over the child need to
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I am entering it. You have to enter it
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and I have done that. Get help if you
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forget your assistive access passcode.
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An Apple account can be used blah blah
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blah blah blah. Not now. Of course, you
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can set a recovery Apple account for
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that, but for our demonstration, not
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Exiting assistive access. Triple click
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the side button. That's your power
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button. Then enter the assistive access
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passcode to turn off assistive access.
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Anytime you as a parent or as an
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authority figure needs to do something
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on the phone outside of assistive
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access, you tap this three times. Enter
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your assistive access passcode, the one
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we just set up, and you're good to go.
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Assistive access is ready to use. You
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can make changes to assistive access
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from settings at any time. Start using
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assistive access. It will ask for the
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assistive access passcode, the one we
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And the transformation begins.
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And here you go. We have our dump phone
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time. And this is what the rose view
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looks like. These are all the apps that
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or whoever else is using the phone in
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this mode is able to access. It's pretty
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much a dumb phone. Now, it's a fully
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functional iPhone. It can be tracked.
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Its location can be traced over the
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Now, if you want to exit assistive mode,
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you tap your side button, your power
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and it takes you either into the
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settings. You can go into emergency
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mode. This is a settings. Of course, you
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There are a few settings you can change
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from here. emergency. If you need to
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make an emergency, call 911 or
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And then you can exit assistive access
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in which case it will ask for that
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I hope this helps. Any iPhone running
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iOS 17 and later can be turned to a dumb
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phone using assistive access the way I
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have demonstrated here. Thanks for
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