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My grandmother has an Ipad and an IPhone. We sometimes video call her on here phone using whatsapp. But this works around 50% of the time correctly and the othe
by sneeuwpopsneeuw 6y ago
My grandmother has an Ipad and an IPhone. We sometimes video call her on here phone using whatsapp. But this works around 50% of the time correctly and the other times we just call using a regular land line phone. She uses the Ipad only as a image viewer. We showed her multiple times how to google something but that is just to difficult for her. But she understands how to watch the photo's we put on the device, and she really likes to watch the old photo's of all our vacations together. So my recommendation would be use something that your grandmother is already comfortable with and start thinking from there. Introducing something new can be hard for her even if it is simpeler.
- noodlesUK 6y agoShe’s unfortunately not a smartphone or tablet user at the moment, and I doubt that she has any desire (or ability) to learn how to use one... Basically I want a landline phone that can also do video
- arethuza 6y agoThe feature on my iPad that utterly entranced my mother in law (in her 80s) was Google Street View - she was absolutely fascinated by being able to "visit" places she had been before.
- izacus 6y agoI found it impossible to teach my elderly grandparents to properly use the swipe-based UI of modern iPads. They kept having issues properly timing it and had random things appear on screen. Even with enterprise lockdown it wasn't possible to disable all the features. Even worse - you can't lock the iPad to only show FaceTime/Duo/whatever. It stops receiving calls if you put it into single app mode with a communication app.