Mom’s iPhone 5C started acting wonky — the touch screen was difficult to get to respond, even after a hard reset. \u00a0Then my cousin called me to tell me that mom’s phone kept giving an error about “wait 5 minutes and try again” — still not sure exactly what was not working. \u00a0But in any case, we decided to get her a new phone. \u00a0And then needed to figure out how to optimize a new iPhone 7 for her.<\/p>\n
We had seen this post<\/a> about how to optimize a laptop for your nonagenerian grandmother, but no corresponding piece for the iPhone.<\/p>\n First thing: \u00a0she can’t hold the 7plus — it’s too big for her hands.<\/p>\n Like John Krauss, I didn’t want to have to remember what to do when the phone somehow got reset. \u00a0Or the iOS upgraded. \u00a0 So here’s what to do. \u00a0After you get the phone, go to Settings and make a bunch of changes from the defaults in iOS 10.2 — listed more or less in the order they show up:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Decide if you want to have some of the other remote options available or not — like AirDrop. \u00a0We opted to leave that on, so we could both share photos to her and receive photos from her when we were together. \u00a0We moved lots of the “standard” apps into folders and moved them to the second home screen so they weren’t distracting and she was far less likely to open them by mistake.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One week with the new phone and she is less frustrated, which means I’m getting fewer random messages. \u00a0Which means we’re both happier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mom’s iPhone 5C started acting wonky — the touch screen was difficult to get to respond, even after a hard reset. \u00a0Then my cousin called me to tell me that mom’s phone kept giving an error about “wait… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49],"tags":[53,50,51,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monty-doyle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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