On iOS you can also disable specific actions and even select areas of the screen you want to disable touchscreen usage over.
I do wonder if part of the issue though is that we have thousands of these 'great' features, so discovery is poor because people can't possibly know about them all. 'great' features lost in a sea of other 'great' features.
anyway, at least a few dozen other people didn't know about this feature, so i guess the post was helpful anyway. for the record, just now i tried and couldn't find any reference to these modes in the first 2 queries i thought of, so it's not trivial to find that it already exists (although i do not use google or chatgpt). i just assumed that if the feature existed i would have heard about it before, so i wrote a blog post, and it was fun.
to your point about discoverability, i think that's true, and there's no comprehensive user manual for android, which would be the normal way one would discover features in a device. hm, that's another feature i'd like in my phone: a built-in digital technical manual, like the safety & regulatory manual.
Nice. Unfortunately, GA does not seem to work with Apple Wallet at all.
You can also configure the action button to enable Guided Access as well depending on what phone you have.
I don't have that one (iPhone 15 Pro). When triple tapping in Wallet, I get an overlay "guided access cannot be opened when multiple apps are active".
The scenario would be e.g. at a concert entrance queue where there is a nonzero risk of someone snatching the unlocked phone out of my hands.
You think if they couldn't even be arsed to google the name, that they'd google to find out their idea has already existed for years?
Maybe I’m reading too much into these negative comments, but we’re reading the same text. Right? Some rando’s thoughts in their public blog (no offense intended; the about admits they’re just a person on Central Time)?
It’s not like this is an article on Tom’s Hardware or TechDirt. I’m not against pointing out errors and oversights, but why this sense of offense, shock, incredulity.
Heck. It’s not AI Slop or do you want more AI articles instead of these uninformed hot-take blog posts? Hehe