How To Lock Apps In IPhone

If you are looking for an app to lock apps in iPhone then there is no need of that as Apple provides an inbuilt feature to lock apps in iPhone. In this article, we will explain about the same useful feature of locking Apps in iPhone which many of you might not know. After going through this post you will get to know how to lock Apps in iPhone without using any additional application from App Store and even without jailbreak. The same feature will also work if you are looking to hide apps on iPhone. Moreover, you can also control what all features are available to use for a particular application, meaning you can also lock specific functions present inside an App. The feature which will allow you to hide apps in iPhone is named Guided Access. Under General select Accessibility. In Accessibility, if you scroll down you will find Guided Access.

Turning Guided Access On will give an option of Passcode Settings. Here by selecting Set Guided Access Passcode, you can set Passcode which will be used while locking and unlocking Apps. Open the App which you want to lock. For instance, take Messages App. Now to Start Guided Access and lock Messages App triple click the home button. Triple clicking on the home button will give you options where you can restrict features within an app as shown below. This is the best part of this feature. You might have seen apps which lock other applications but to lock features within an app is quite new and different. For example, we have taken Messages Application, tap on Options at bottom left corner as shown above and Toggle Keyboards to OFF. You may turn off other features depending on your choice. With this, you won’t be able to use Keyboard inside Messages App. Moreover, you can circle out areas within an app which you would like to disable. In our example, lets circle out and disable Edit so that no one is able to delete Messages.