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How do you lock the touch screen with an app still runing?

I want to be able to lock the touch screen but not close the app (iTeleport). I still want the display to be active. I want to be able to lock it to prevent accidental input and unlock it at will. The "lock entire device" feature from hitting the power button doesn't work for this as it shuts off the display.

dual 2.7 G5 (8G RAM); 2.8GHz MBP (6G RAM, 48G SSD 500G HD); iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Water cooled G5's still rule!

Posted on Jan 13, 2011 9:22 AM

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Jan 31, 2015 1:51 PM in response to Jim Newhouser1

We have just released an iOS app (working for both iPad and iPhone) that allows users to disable touch screen inputs all over the screen when viewing any image. The source of image can be from your photo album, camera, or clipboard (image that you copied from any source such as browser or e-mail, etc.).


This was developed to solve the frustrating problem of accidental touch on screen using an intuitive interface which allows freezing/unfreezing with minimum interaction. You will find it much more user friendly that the "Guided Access" feature of iOS if you are interested in freezing the touch for images. For example no password is required or no areas on the screen need to be defined.


Name of the app is "Still Screen" and the link is below. Please let us know if you have any feedback and suggestion to improve the app. Thanks.


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stillscreen/id957150954?ls=1&mt=8


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Jan 31, 2015 7:26 PM in response to tonefox

@tonefox: Yes, You are correct. "Still Screen" app works for disabling touch screen when viewing an image. In iOS all apps are isolated from each other and one cannot affect the other. No stand alone app can provide a universal solution for this question. Only the iOS core functionality can provide such feature and so far the only solution is through "Guided Access".

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