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A look at the new guided access features in iOS 6.
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hey everyone this is Michael with Cult
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of mac and today I'm going to show you
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how in iOS 6 you'll be able to use the
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guided access features so basically uh
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iOS 6 brought to the table a new feature
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that I think is highly underrated uh and
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it's called guided access it's an
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accessibility feature so if you hop into
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settings and go to General you'll want
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to head down to accessibility and then
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scroll down here to guided access um now
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it's called an accessibility feature but
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I think it's much more than that uh it's
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designed for people with disabilities or
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for young children uh but it can also be
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used for a wide variety of other
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applications as well including schools
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and uh even just to limit access to
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physical buttons it's really neat and
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I'll show you some of the features so
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once you turn it on here you can set a
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passcode and for this demo I just have
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it set as
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1111 uh so this prevents you know
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anybody from just going in and changing
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things around and then you can also
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enable or disable screen sleep which is
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kind of neat so you can make it so that
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the device cannot sleep uh so that's
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pretty neat as well so now pretty much
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what you want to do is go to any
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application you want to restrict uh this
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case we'll go to Safari so let's say I'm
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a teacher and I want to use a web page
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in Safari to administer a test uh but I
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don't want the students to be able to
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you know go to another page or do
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whatever and you know Google search all
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different stuff so what I can do here is
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I can just triple click the home button
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and then select guided access I'm going
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to be brought to this menu here which
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lets me disallow
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and you know restrict different parts of
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the screen so let's say that I don't
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want the students to be able to access
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this tab bar on here I can just kind of
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put a circle around it and it guesses
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where I want to restrict and then I can
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refine this area just like that and
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let's see I don't want them to be able
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to use the URL bar either uh you know to
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cheat Google search or something so I
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can Circle that as well and you know it
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works pretty well for how bad I'm doing
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this so now I have those two different
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areas restricted and then I can search
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for I can look at the options here
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rather I can turn off motion let's say
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so that they can't R rotate it into uh
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landscape mode and then you know regain
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access to those areas so I have that off
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and then I can hit start so pretty much
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here now I cannot lock the device by
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myself it says guided access enabled
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triple tap the home button if I try to
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go home it won't let me so if I want to
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go home I'll have to triple tap the home
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button enter the passcode and then it'll
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bring me back to the guided access menu
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where I can end or resume so now that
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I've resumed you can see here I can
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scroll around uh but there's two grade
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out areas now one at the top here and
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one at the bottom and you can see
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there's a little lines to so basically
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if I try to tap in here to go to a URL
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bar or down here to change a page it
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won't let me and that's pretty nice so
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it's a lot of restrictive features like
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that uh that make this application very
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useful so now there's you know other
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things you could do with this too so
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let's just turn this
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off um let's say that you have a small
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child and you want them to be able to
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use your iPhone but you don't want them
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you know going to the App Store and
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searching apps or whatever uh let say
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you just want them to play a game that
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they really like uh for example here
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maybe they like to play Tiny Wings so
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you can go into this app and by
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restricting guided access you can go
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into here and you can make sure that
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they won't be able to you know leave the
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app and you don't have to select any
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areas on the screen uh just by starting
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this now they won't be able to leave the
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app so if they want to go do something
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else they won't be able to until you put
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in the passcode to let them so that's
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pretty neat so now this is also pretty
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good for gaming in my opinion just uh
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for yourself so let's say you're playing
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Temple Run here and uh you do a lot of
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swiping in this game and normally if
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you're swiping around it's very easy to
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accidentally trigger that notification
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center little banner up there and
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sometimes if you're really playing it uh
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you'll accidentally trigger Notification
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Center or maybe you hit the home button
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by accident uh anything like that it's
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really annoying so just by enabling
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guided
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access you hit start now you can't
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access notification center you can't
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accidentally hit the home button uh it's
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really good for gaming if you're really
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into the game and you want a couple more
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controls over you know what you can and
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cannot do now as far as accessibility
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feature goes this is really handy for
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people with disabilities too uh because
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you can enable things such as restricted
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parts of the screen you know limiting
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certain parts of you know the physical
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features physical buttons rather and you
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can also turn on things like voice over
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or Zoom so you know you could use Safari
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very easily like this with uh both voice
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over on like
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thison so you have you know things like
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voice over and you can use them in
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combination with these new guided access
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features and zoom and you know inverting
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the colors in the screen and this really
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makes the Iphone and iOS in particular a
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really powerful platform for you know
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accessibility and there's just a lot of
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features and I think this guided access
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thing is pretty neat and I think it's
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really overlooked with iOS 6 but in my
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opinion it could be one of the coolest
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features so that's about all I just kind
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of wanted to show you you know what
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guided access will be like in iOS 6 as
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always if you have anything that you'd
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like to see me make a video on or if you
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found any new features in iOS 6 beta 2
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assuming you're a developer make sure to
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send me an email I hope you found this
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video useful and thank you for watching
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