How to LOCK APPS on iPhone! (with Face ID & Passcode)

How to Lock Apps on iPhone with Face ID, Touch ID or Passcode on iOS 16! (New Method 2023)
If you ever wanted to lock individual apps on your iPhone, here's how! This new method is much better than the previous one we shared on the channel in 2021, but it requires iOS 16.4 or later.
So in this tutorial, we show how to lock applications through the Shortcuts app with the new "Lock Screen" action and some additional if/then actions. On the surface, this will force the apps to go to the lockscreen and require a passcode or Face ID authentication. And to take it a step further, it can also detect when you're using your phone so only other people get locked out. Kinda. You'll see in the video. Enjoy!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 No more Timer
0:52 Start by doing this
1:55 Then use this new Action
2:33 Showing Locked Apps
3:19 Advanced Lock Apps (only others get locked out, not you)
4:05 (If it's confusing, this is coming)
4:22 Pay Attention for This Step!
5:36 I'm not locked out, but others are
5:56 How to lock person to ONE app only (prevent snooping)
6:59 Alternate Method (permanent lock down)
8:52 In an idea world..
9:14 Warning
Thoughts on locking apps on your iPhone? Think Apple will add this feature eventually - maybe with iOS 17?
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[@BrandonButch]

Will Apple EVER add this feature natively!? 😩

[@BIGARMSDUDE]

No

[@batman562010]

I hope they do!

[@muhammadwazir9936]

Maybe 🤔

[@leonardog.2491]

Man show us the Cloak application with the premium upgrade. It’s absolutely fantastic and loaded with amazing features to lock or hide applications

[@ryryk6977]

I hope so

[@OPGamified]

Thank You!!! ❤ This method is slightly faster than the timer one on my iPhone 11 Pro Max… Also it doesn’t pause running media in the background when it gets activated, unlike the timer one. 🖤

[@brandon___styles]

This tutorial is excellent, Brandon! Thanks! Very simple to setup! I’ve always wanted a way to lock the Files app. I locked that, and 11 others.

[@BrandonButch]

Awesome, glad you found it useful Brandon 🫡

[@TEDB32]

Was going to to say it never work for me

[@salehgani9144]

Dear Brandon, your technical knowledge, skills and the way you articulate them so concise which makes it ever so easier for me to understand given my thought processes and memory are ever so erratic and fact that I now panic with constant upgrades of technology due to cocktail of medication I take for reactive arthritis and other medical conditions. Thanks ever so much, I ever so grateful. Have a great day and further growth with your channel. It deserves multiple millions subscribers especially given all the other useless channels reach millions which is beyond my comprehension, maybe I am from old school.

[@Soulframe0687]

I can’t tell if this is a hate comment or what it is

[@yavorpetrakiev6671]

Please do these kind of iphone tricks more often! It's really cool to see what the phone can do even when I don't need this right now. Now I know I can lock an app if I wanted to.

[@kristinaveirum]

We can hope they will 🤔 Very helpful video! I’m gonna make that shortcut for sure 👍🏼 Thanks for the always great content B! 👏🏼

[@AndySchuylerVlogs]

@BrandonButch Hey Brandon! Thanks for the update on locking the apps with Face ID and passcode.

[@colandabrown9257]

Thank you Brandon we truly appreciate you for everything you do for us. You are a hard-working man and we truly thank you for everything. God bless you and your family.

[@BrandonButch]

💙

[@Yoyolvzmzda3]

you are a life saver now i can have my own privacy and no one messing with my private apps like my cousins messing with my phone thank you so much brandon!

[@iGarni]

Finally, shortcuts tutorials will be back.

[@CeeMKE]

Thanks for sharing this, it works great. Got 20 apps locked, and have shared this with several people 👍🏽

[@user-jz3ct8ou2i]

Absolutely amazing, i love this feature - thank you so so much. I often leave my phone open and now i feel safe doing so around my friends/kids/work, as details are safe.

[@sarahpayne2873]

thank you for sharing, it would be great if you could also lock shortcuts too

[@itsyourgirlgamer15]

I didn’t get the Lock Screen option

[@Rheivax]

- Updated for the lock only if not at home as suggested by @Corentin Heinix I good trick if you don't want to use the WiFi names (I have multiple at home because of the repeater) is to use Weather app to get your location and compare it to your address. This also helps in case you're on your mobile network (say the WiFi is down for whatever reason). So add these steps in your automation: [the names in brackets] are the system variables - Get current weather at [Current Location] - Get [Location] from [Weather Conditions] (to select this, search for Weather and select "Get Details of Weather Conditions" and then select "Location" - Get distance from [Insert your address here] to [Location] - If [Distance] [is greater than] [0.3] --- Lock the screen -Otherwise -End If

[@corentinheinix8252]

You can get the location directly and it’s distance is less else or distance is more Good improvement idea

[@Rheivax]

@@corentinheinix8252 good point, now that I think of it it’s not making sense as it’s only locking in the house 😅. But that’s the logic anyway, your suggestion makes sense and you’d just need to add the Lock the Screen in the Otherwise part.

[@uzairahmed7]

@@corentinheinix8252how do I do that based on location I was not able to figure it out

[@123valve]

You are amazing you make something complicated easy to understand. Thanks

[@NaturalBornWinner]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you, Brandon!

[@dandillinger-belcher9745]

Brandon amazing and could you do a series on the shortcut app.

[@ItzmeQuinz]

Helpful as always Brandon

[@jatougibba248]

Thanks so much it really help me after hours trying to fix it but with your video i just fix it with in a minute ❤❤

[@Daniela-2208]

Setting shortcuts to lock the screen when entering an app, is genius! Thanks for this video. Will definitely be trying this P.S. can’t wait for the updated shortcuts video

[@Joshua78]

Very useful, thanks bro!

[@xjameslove44]

Youre a god bro shortcuts is to easy to manipulate to do what you needa do clutchhh

[@yayana.748]

Thank you. Very helpful

[@peacepocket]

Apple really need to make this more simple.

[@user-rp9ev5cv8l]

Love the way you explain things

[@pewanauyoma6154]

Thank you very much.This helped a lot.❤

[@batman562010]

Thank you! The only thing that sucks is it almost seems like your phone is glitching

[@BrandonButch]

haha kinda but that's a good thing - it'll make the person think something is wrong with your phone

[@chicodusty30]

Can’t wait for the shortcut tutorial!!!

[@CharF25]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@rosestines66]

Thank you for sharing this information I really appreciate it I didn’t know this existed until now

[@BrandonButch]

Glad it helped!

[@racsito39]

This tutorial was very useful, thank you for sharing and please make an updated tutorial to showcase the usefulness of the Shortcut App.

[@MartinKapal]

If you want the other person to use only one app and prevent snooping, you can use the “Guided access” accessibility feature. You can enable it in Settings - Accessibility - Guided Access and set a passcode to activate/deactivate it. Then, start an app and press the side button three times and you’ll be in the guided access mode. To exit, press the side button three times again and enter the same passcode.

[@laincoubert7236]

that's my thought exactly! and you can create an automation to turn it on as well. i set up a mode (similar to do not disturb or driving) that triggers an automation in shortcuts that turns on guided access. that's for those who want to use the triple press for something else or if the button's hard to press.

[@matthewhuber8697]

Yes! I love guided access. I have noticed sometimes it’s buggy, but 95% of the time it’s perfect

[@CeeMKE]

Yup I use this 👍🏽

[@SamAlt420]

when i click the home button 3 times it doesnt work, so i jsut click the one in the help icon

[@Ghafar.S]

Thank you, it has been really useful.

[@nolab2889]

Where do I find the wallpaper your using? It looks amazing ❤

[@OGMrWayne]

This is awesome Brandon, I totally appreciate this. Keep up the awesome vids🤜🏾

[@zaimie4693]

Very helpful..tq👍👍👍

[@paulceloso6948]

Thank you for this

[@deey132]

💃🏽 Brandon I am truly happy I came across your videos and subbed, you have not let me done yet. From ringtones to locking apps, the simply things I want from Apple I get from you ❤ 👏🏽 . Apple, seriously get it together.

[@MrNobleTV]

Thanks for Sharing.. Nice Video 😎👍

[@pascal5142]

freaking awesome, ive been searching this also for ages, im gonna subscribe

[@taniahaque0110]

Thank you so much ❤ Finally now I can lock app 😄

[@ayashaomar1092]

That helped me so much thank you so much

[@RonaldBrown59]

Nice tutorial, thanks for sharing.

[@TinusTK]

thank you so much !!

[@vcrz8545]

Thank you so much king 👑

[@mariaibrahem9329]

Thank u for helping it works

[@imh1scure]

i literally love you thank you

[@tizzz6722]

Very helpful video ❤

[@KingTechHD]

This is a great method. Thanks man

[@imjustpeachy1]

Awesome job ❤

[@JaspreetSingh-ho9ri]

Thanks brother

[@Obbee]

Thank You sooo much.

[@smartinez0403]

Thank you I love it

[@frankralph118]

Thanks bro❤️

[@lifeasaunie]

great video . thanks for this !

[@panjijumena2832]

Hi brandon how to lock the shortcut apps it self? To prevent someone delete automation from shortcut and i dont find shortcut app on apps list, thx for this video.

[@Utkarsh12121]

Helpful 😊

[@E.I.Sterling]

thank you so much

[@TEDSHOTTHAT]

Thanks Brandon my guy

[@RandomBogey]

6:03 That’s why I keep Guided Access and “Accessibility Shortcut” enabled. If I ever hand my phone to someone, like a cashier at a store so they can read a code or to show someone a picture, I just triple tap the power button and the phone (usually) remembers the last settings I used (every option unticked so the screen is completely unchangeable) and it doesn’t require any other input. Then, when I hand it to them, I tell them the screen is locked so they don’t have to worry about accidentally swiping away or locking it and they don’t have to palm it like a fragile little antique piece of glass while trying not to touch the screen or buttons. When they hand it back, double tap the power button, Face ID unlocks it, and it’s back to normal.

[@adegbenroagoro5180]

I do the same. However I’ve also been using the screen time and automation tips since they were available.

[@carsonnguyen4423]

Can you please show a video or walk us through doing your technique? Reason I ask is because when I triple click it shows the guided start but anyone can click on the “cancel” part and gain access at that point

[@RandomBogey]

@@carsonnguyen4423 Not sure what you mean exactly. If guided access comes up when you triple click the sleep/wake button, tap on “options” in the bottom left corner, select how much access you want (untick everything if you want it fully locked down), tap “done,” hit “start” in the top right corner and it should ask you to create a passcode (I typically do “000000” because it’s simply and I’m not too worried about security if I’m just briefly handing it to someone). Once you verify the passcode, then it should start guided access and the phone screen will be locked down. Then, to end guided access, either double tap the sleep/wake button to use Face ID, or triple tap sleep/wake to enter the passcode.

[@lydiaeseuskwamis6660]

That’s perfect I love it work very well

[@manmeetkaur6327]

Thank you :)

[@amithalder9399]

Thank you bro love you love you

[@vincekalbz1982]

Thank you🙂🙏🏻

[@luna_okbamichaeltewelde]

Thank you so so much

[@hiraviagrawal]

Excellent tutorial Brandon. I so wanted to have this for such a long time but doing it through screen time was very painful. I don't know why apple is not putting it iOS as a feature?

[@Craine23]

Awesome man!

[@loriw2661]

This is so cool! Until I found your channel, I had no idea how many things my iPhone 14 pro max could do.

[@cpercival02]

VERY NICE!

[@loveyanyee]

Thanks thanks ❤❤❤

[@mickeyforas8056]

This was a big help thank you but I can’t get into my content restrictions bc it’s saying a have a PIN code lock on it and I do not remember it 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@bruno22kaka]

can you please tell where did you get that wallpaper?

[@rockssp5388]

is there any way to use the lock the screen function on 15.7? i have a older iphone. thanks

[@user-ij4ge3qp4k]

Thank you so much yesterday I think my friends went to my phone when I was playing

[@mikelowry7476]

Lock Screen won’t pop up when I search for it. Is there another way I can do this?

[@Reaper-qq3iq]

Bro thank you

[@user-oi1pz3dx4c]

Tysm

[@zubbywhite449]

Thanks Brandon

[@itsmeremember7851]

The first one was good enough for me 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@bigcrashg]

great vid bro

[@Pakdelight786]

Good example on how to Lock iPhone Apps!

[@habi78121]

thanks

[@Rechain]

I use the screen time and set the apps to 1 minute. So when I’ve used it at least 1 minute on a new day, it locks. Also checking the one more minute, so it locks 🔒 correctly, so gotta use the passcode to get access. But I would really want a native app lock function in iOS, instead of it’s the developers own choice to set a Face ID protection. Apple, bring it to us in iOS 17!

[@thetechlibrarian]

Samsung secure folder is fantastic. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be standard on iOS.

[@prasadtony883]

After one year it will not give better software experience

[@miggybalba1328]

Apple will add it in the future but will tell people that it can only run on more advanced Bionic chip. 😂

[@jeffjeffjeff69]

@@miggybalba1328 lolss

[@WashingtoDC954]

Wow thank you very much ❤️ Only me can see mine photos now 😏

[@joaquimtaveira5139]

Really thanks!!! Apple now needs to improve a feature to allow us block Shortcuts app with face id and passcode

[@purnenduanushree]

What will happen if someone remove the automation from Shortcut app & then try to open application?

[@thomastevis8655]

Awesome videos sorry I’m so late

[@cutieapplepie]

Hey guys, this bloated barnacle didnt mention that YOU HAVE TO FIRST, ADD THE LOCK SCREEN TO YOUR SHORTCUTS before you can LOCK an app. So please youtube search "how to add lock screen in shortcuts" first

[@RohanSingh-zc4bm]

thanks and yeah btw love that insult and I am taking it hahahahh

[@quinton1110]

This should be a native feature. I love biolockdown when I was jailbroken. I could lock any app or settings pane with touch/face ID.

[@Qsvri]

So can you just do the shortcut to add face id and passcode to apps u want face id and passcode on?

[@migara_sen]

Works!

[@Philosophymatters481]

amazing

[@ayeshaahana6090]

Does application locking drain the battery health? Any effects on that?

[@PepperHoneyUnleashed]

When I typed up Lock Screen in the actions it didn’t show up??

[@rikard1414]

Same for me

[@freakyindia]

Cool!

[@badlesbian1983]

Hey on IOS17. Thers a few steeps changes BUT pretty much the same. One thing to note - in doing the shortcuts method - what will happen is, if you set it up like the video here (excluding the advanced steps) it will send you to lock screen which is good. When you put in your password - instead of it taking you to the home screen - it will take you into the app you just tried to get into. The app WILL stay open in the background and you can toggle through your unlocked - locked apps - but once you go to the homepage ... and try to go back into the app - the proicess above starts again . Whilst the network adding step is great - if you have nosey roommates or whomever - and you all share the same network - that would not be ideal in my opinion :) OBVS this doesnt work if the person KNOWS your lock screen password - but create a good one only you know and can guess.

[@superrichardking1]

is there an automation wherein the app wont lock if the user is the owner? or it will lock then run face id if the user is the owner?

[@tomascicenasofficial]

Can u share your wallpaper ? Looks very vool