How to Lock Apps on iPhone using Screen Time?
Screen time is one of those applications that was introduced with the iOS 12 to manage your time on the apps. Apparently since there is not an official way to lock applications on iPhone specifically for photos etc… then you can use the screen time to limit accessing the app. Here is how it is done. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Note:
With Screen Time you can lock all the apps except for the Phone App. For Screen Time and messages you must edit the “Always Allowed” section in order to allow limitation.
How to use the Locked Apps? Basically now you have learned how to lock the application through the screen time, so right now you need to learn how to use the locked application through the screen time. So, open the application that you locked just earlier, Once the time has passed you won’t be able to access the app. At that time Tap on “Ask for More Time”, enter your passcode, and approve to use the App for 15 minutes, 1 hour or all day.
How to Lock Apps on iPhone using Guided Access?
iOS has another application that you can use to lock applications on your phone, that is called guided access. Apparently guided access is helpful whenever you are handing your phone to someone and you have only allowed certain applications to use. Once you enable this feature and configured the settings, the user will only have access to those applications. Once configured the passcode settings for the guided access, the next step is to enable it on a certain apps. To do it, open the App that you want to configure the Guided Access, then press the three times power button or Touch ID. Once you did that the options for configuring will appear. In order to get out of the Guided Access on the certain apps, again press the Power button or the Touch ID three time.
Conclusion:
This is how you can use the iPhone’s built-in features to lock an application on your phone. Apparently there are even more built-in features that can be used similarly to lock app but I am not adding them here. Apparently mostly third party apps on iPhone will not work to lock apps unless you jailbreak. But I am against jailbreaking your iPhone since your license will be lost.
