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I wasn't talking about a dev-switch, but a system wide switch for the home button. The issue is not messing with the toddler attention span, but the slow-loadin

I wasn't talking about a dev-switch, but a system wide switch for the home button. The issue is not messing with the toddler attention span, but the slow-loading apps. With the toddler in control, they often won't wait until the app loads or they'll hit the home button if it becomes shortly unresponsive, and then they'll go right back into the same app. Yes, this is an app problem that should be solved, but in absence of those developers solving it, I would like to bypass them with my own fix. Wrt to videos, left to own devices, the toddler will often just watch videos, and I'd rather them interact with the apps when it is not video time. When the icon is not there/found, that works fine.

Stormbringer 16y ago
"Wrt to videos, left to own devices, the toddler will often just watch videos, and I'd rather them interact with the apps when it is not video time. When the icon is not there/found, that works fine. " Ok, thanks. I haven't had videos loaded on the iPad, so this hasn't come up during my field testing. Maybe there's a niche to make toddler videos? Actually, I think there is something much more subtle and fundamental going on here that I will need to think about. When they are driving the app, the toddler is very 'switched on' and they want everything to be clickable and interactable... yet according to what you're saying they switch over into a totally passive mode when watching videos. Fascinating, but begs the question "now that I know that, what do I do?" :D