Prevent kids from deleting photos

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Prevent kids from deleting photos

I don’t want my kids to delete a photo on our iPad and have it delete from our family archive in iCloud. How do I protect photos from getting accidentally deleted? Can I require a passcode to delete?

iPad 2, iOS 9

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 11:33 PM

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léonie

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Feb 10, 2022 1:03 AM in response to pura_vida

Are your kids using the same AppleID as you are using? That is not safe. The AppleID will give you access and full control over all cloud data stored for this AppleID. There is no way to lock the photos for users with the same AppleID.

Create separate AppleIDs for the kids, so they can only delete their own photos. You can still share the purchases with family sharing. What is Family Sharing? - Apple Support

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léonie

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Feb 10, 2022 4:56 AM in response to pura_vida

You cannot lock the photos to protect them from deletion, if the children are allowed access to the iPad.

The best you can do is to keep regular backups of the iPad and to save the photos to a computer that is protected.

If you have a computer, you can use the computer as the main archive of all your photos and sync the photos to the iPad. Just connect the iPad to the computer using a USB connection and sync the photos with iTunes on a PC or from the Finder on a Mac. It is not possible at all to delete synced photos from an iPhone or iPad. You can only remove them by syncing again.

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pura_vida Author

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Feb 10, 2022 4:40 AM in response to léonie

Thank you, but I’m not sure that actually solves the problem I have. They don’t have their own phones or photos. Or email addresses. It is a family iPad and they scroll through and look at our family photos on it.

I do use the screen time management tools to limit their access to harmful sites/apps and to give them limits on time etc. They can’t make app purchases or anything like that either. When they want to do something it requires a passcode (one I enter that they don’t know) so that I am at least aware they are asking to “be on a screen” and can pay attention.

I like them being able to see photos just not delete them.

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