Questions about using Screen Time to limit persons ability to change settings
Hi. My dad is in a nursing home and due to pandemic it is very difficult to visit him and fix issues with his iPad. He has cognitive and communication issues. Because of this, he easily gets confused and loses patience when confronted with the requirement to enter a passcode or passwords or anything with a choice. He will just go into the settings and start changing things and make things worse. Or enter a passcode 10 times wrong and disable the ipad.
So I'm setting up screen time to limit his ability to create mayhem. I've set a passcode for screentime and so far I set Screen time to disallow his ability to change the iPad passcode which I've set to something very simple.
I can also set it to not allow him to change account settings.
This looks interesting because it appears it will block him from messing with the icloud settings, find my settings and apple ID password etc. I'm wondering though if I do that if he will eventually have an issue if there is an iOS update to install since it seems to block off that whole section in settings. As it is now, I have updates set to not automatically download. The less he has to interact with the iPad the better. Can he still approve/allow an update if Apple pushes it through with the account settings not allowed in Screen Time? Also, will "find my" still work on my end if I need to reset his iPad via the iCloud?
Any other potential dangers - dangers meaning my father being confronted with something confusing - by not allowing him to change account settings?
He mainly uses Ipad to check email and watch netflix. There are no security issues there at nursing home so that is not an issue to worry about. Thanks.