hi everyone!... how can i lock apps and folders on my iphone 4 running ios5 without jailbreaking?... what i need exactly is to lock a folder on the photos app and i need to lock some apps suck as facebook and sms instead locking the whole phone system!

No way to do so with the native iOS.

You can't lock individual apps or folders with an iOS setting. There are some photo apps that allow you to lock them. You can Restrict apps so they can't be accessed without unrestricting them, i.e. for a childs iPhone... Settings > General > Restrictions.

I have a 3 year old son who gets to fiddle around with my phone when he is really bored, at restaurants etc. I have a few games for him which are age suitable but I also have a couple of games (shooters etc) that are age suitable to me. I do not wish for him to be able to access those. There are loads of alternatives in the "jailbroken" but I really do not wish to do that. Is there something in the EULA that says that I can not create an app with this function? It seems to me that someone would have made one otherwise? Please let me know and I will look into creating one if there are no rules being broken by password protecting individual apps.

You can't do what you want because all apps, on a non-jailbroken iPhone, are sandboxed. Thus, only Apple could add/allow this capability.

Get him an iPod Touch.. :-)

wjosten wrote:

You can't do what you want because all apps, on a non-jailbroken iPhone, are sandboxed. Thus, only Apple could add/allow this capability.

This has nothing with 'sandboxing' to do.

It is because there is no interface (on the phone) to set the restrictions. All the Apple Apps are simply in a plist that makes them un-deletable, and there is no interface to edit that list.

Sandboxing = restrict Apps from accessing each others data!