[cellu]

I'd agree until few months ago, but now my wife's dad lucidity is degrading pretty quickly.

Until few years ago he was a proficient digital photographer with advanced Photoshop knowledge. He was definitely tech literate and also have used Apple gears its infancy (the first guy in town to own an iPhone).

But now he forgets his passcode, or the fact that he can just use his thumb to unlock the phone. He keeps deleting his bank app and then goes to the nearby computer store shop to get it back. He also saved a scammer number claiming to be his daughter with a new phone (well, actually asked a friend to save it because he forgot how to do it).

Because we live abroad it's quite hard to check on him and his device to make sure he's safe and have been wondering myself how to best deal with the situation.

[theGnuMe]

Next time you visit put him in your IOS family and install parental controls. Then disable contact updates, remove permission to delete apps etc...

[luke-stanley]

Nice interpretation of parental controls, with the older parent being the one controlled!

[eitally]

We did the same thing (but with Android) for my mother-in-law, who is starting to suffer from dementia (and literally clicks on everything). It's the same way I manage my kids' phones and it works pretty well.

[cellu]

thanks, I'll try! I don't have kids so didn't really think of this

[paulcole]

Everything you describes sucks but I dunno why you seem to think it's an Apple issue?

If somebody's lucid enough to use technology, put them on Apple stuff. If they're not lucid enough to use technology then Apple or Android doesn't matter – both are unusable.