There can be plenty of reasons behind setting a lock on an iPhone. For instance, it can be that you want to keep your private pictures to be super safe or it can even be that you want to keep the kids far from the reach of some applications that are not appropriate for their age and so on.

Sadly, iOS devices don’t have the support to lock every application automatically.

Best ways of locking apps on an iPhone

The method of locking first-party applications on iPhone by using restrictions

1. Firstly, visit Settings from the iPhone Home screen.
2. Then, click on General.
3. Move downwards and click on Restrictions.
4. Press on Enable Restrictions.
5. Put your new password.
6. Put it one more time for confirming the same.
7. After that, below the Allow sub-part, you will get many options of disabling first-party applications. For instance, Siri.
8. Observe that it will not comprise of applications that have been installed by you.
9. Push the toggle towards leftwards and switch it off. After doing it, you will be able to prevent any disallowed applications from getting displayed on the Home screen.
10. Look that it is not a way of locking an application. Instead, it will be better to call it a local application deleting way, after all, apps that you lock by the above-given method will not be avail to you till you again permit them.
11. Fortunately, you can also put parental controls on your smartphone.

The method of locking applications on iPhone by using ‘Guided Access’ (Password Application Lock)

Guided Access in simple words is known as a single application lock option.

1. Firstly, visit the Settings from the iPhone Home screen.

2. Then, click on General.

3. Press on Accessibility.