iOS: About Guided Access

Use Guided Access to:

• Temporarily restrict your iOS device to a particular app
• Disable areas of the screen that aren’t relevant to a task, or areas where an accidental gesture might cause a distraction
• Disable the hardware buttons

Tap Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access to set up Guided Access. From there you can:

• Turn Guided Access on or off 
• Set a passcode that controls the use of Guided Access and prevents someone from leaving an active session
• Set whether the device can go to sleep during a session

Start a Guided Access session

• Open the app you want to run.
• Triple-click the Home button.
• Adjust settings for the session, then click Start.

Disable app controls and areas of the app screen

• Circle any part of the screen you want to disable.
• Use the handles to adjust the area.

Ignore all screen touches

• Turn off Touch.

Keep iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from switching from portrait to landscape or from responding to any other motions

• Turn off Motion.

End a Guided Access session

• Triple-click the Home button.
• Enter the Guided Access passcode.