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

[@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

[@peacepocket]

Apple really need to make this more simple.

[@xornedge8204]

It's Apple, they won't.

[@Raidenlee1204]

@@xornedge8204iOS 18 adds a hidden folder thing

[@carlitoxb110]

The apple way

[@dang577]

They do its the new ios thing all u gotta do is hold down the app it will give u few options one of the options are lock required

[@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

[@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. 🖤

[@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.

[@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

[@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 🫡

[@FYM31]

Was going to to say it never work for me

[@Christina-ez3by]

@@BrandonButchI can’t find the lock screen

[@smartsmudge8893]

@@Christina-ez3bysame pls help

[@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]

💙

[@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.

[@elthongonzalez6345]

I'm having an issue with this, for some reason the "lock screen" option isn't available when searching for it on shortcuts, I am using the beta version of iOS 17 and am unsure if this is causing this, hopefully someone has a solution to my issue.

[@Harmonie..]

i’m mad nobody responded to this i’m having the same issue

[@nelo7001]

yep me too

[@davidpopoola7851]

Click on "New Blank Automation", then search for "Lock Screen" here

[@WonderfulGirl-jm2lq]

Me too

[@GoddessofWords]

Same 😑

[@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!

[@Spidey_Playsss]

I don't see 2:13 it " lock screen "

[@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

[@mikelowry7476]

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

[@tjuntje]

exact same problem fking iphone

[@dusty_disturbed]

Happened to me too, go to shortcuts app, shortcuts tab on the bottom, add new shortcut, add action, and do Lock Screen, do the automation in the video, and press the shortcut you did prior

[@ashurfim]

you need to scroll down it didn’t show up as an option for me either

[@Gojo_the_baker]

Same

[@tangipo2086]

Maybe have your phone set to a different language? Try searching lock but in your language

[@JasonQiuMusic]

It's lame that iOS can't even do something so simple. My 2018 Huawei phone does this with a simple settings option.

[@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

[@PepperHoneyUnleashed]

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

[@rikard1414]

Same for me

[@AndySchuylerVlogs]

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

[@gillianmunemo]

Using iOS 16.5 can seem to find the Lock Screen option on adding actions

[@ChadWickAteUrMom]

Same

[@comraderiri]

Hey Brandon - even thought I have iOS 16, for some reason 'Lock Screen' doesn't come up on my Shortcuts app as an available action... any ideas why?

[@e9cj]

Update to 16.7

[@daddy-san2191]

They are still able to get in with the passcode

[@fwilliams3061]

I have the same problem 😢

[@kristinaveirum]

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

[@rosestines66]

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

[@BrandonButch]

Glad it helped!

[@Delicate141]

4:05 YES, please make a tutorial, no one really did a normal one.

[@_4lexi_]

Thank you so much! I was stressed if someone stole my iphone and stopped sharing location! Now if someone ever steals my device i would know where they are. Thank you

[@strangesamanta7710]

As someone who moved from android to iPhone, goodness me they are missing sm features. This was so simple in an android. iPhone is just street credit at this point. I’m definitely going back to android after this phone is done.

[@MyWORDisntGospel]

So… You go back yet?

[@rax7352]

For a phone that’s so restrictive I’m surprised that there’s no native app lock 😂

[@xjameslove44]

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

[@libbeytds]

To prevent snooping, you can also turn on Guided Access

[@BrandonButch]

True!

[@teaa_m.s9887]

It doesn’t work for me 😭 the option « lock screen » doesn’t appear in Shortcuts idk why since i have IOS 16.6

[@ChadWickAteUrMom]

Same here

[@mustafaalkhateeb9456]

click on "new blank automation" then complete

[@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

[@CeeMKE]

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

[@SA-xk7qj]

You are a genius. I have been looking for something like this for ages. You are thorough and no nonsense. Thank you.

[@sarahpayne2873]

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

[@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.

[@uzairahmed11]

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

[@OGMrWayne]

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

[@cueapollo2753]

App is just opening with out locking screen , I only get the notification from shortcuts when I open the app . How do I fix this ?

[@JacquelineMcDonald-f5q]

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.

[@joaquimtaveira5139]

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

[@TEDSHOTTHAT]

Thanks Brandon my guy

[@MrNobleTV]

Thanks for Sharing.. Nice Video 😎👍

[@tayrizzz]

Thank you brotha ⚡️

[@alexrodriguez1008]

Doesn’t work anymore! I don’t have those features you put as of today’s date. I followed the videos steps *** Edit NVM sorry. For my case I didn’t have the lock options I had to dig around the shortcuts. Either way! It works. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 great video

[@MicsBrown]

How did you do it?

[@Craine23]

Awesome man!

[@chicodusty30]

Can’t wait for the shortcut tutorial!!!

[@ElvisFloren]

Love the way you explain things

[@paulceloso6948]

Thank you for this

[@Pakdelight786]

Good example on how to Lock iPhone Apps!

[@loriw2661]

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

[@Stangleripkis]

For a company that pushes privacy and security to the tenth degree, its quite infuriating that simple privacy features are no where to be found.

[@Portal_3]

One problem with this is that if the attacker knew this they could go into shortcuts and turn it off. But I guess you could lock shortcuts as well.

[@kirito0yuuki235]

He said that you can't lock the shortcuts app.

[@Portal_3]

@@kirito0yuuki235 oh well then that’s one way of getting rid of the locks

[@Portal_3]

@@corycg9624 your timing is pretty bad since iOS 18 lets you lock apps

[@bigcrashg]

great vid bro

[@Utkarsh12121]

Helpful 😊

[@cpercival02]

VERY NICE!

[@zaimie4693]

Very helpful..tq👍👍👍

[@pascal5142]

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

[@ayashaomar1092]

That helped me so much thank you so much

[@imjustpeachy1]

Awesome job ❤

[@iGarni]

Finally, shortcuts tutorials will be back.

[@dandillinger-belcher9745]

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

[@Ted._.EvelynMosby]

Lock screen option is not available in my iPhone 😭

[@Joshua78]

Very useful, thanks bro!

[@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!

[@munchems]

Unfortunately isn’t working on my iPhone or iPad. “Lock Screen” doesn’t come up as an option and the Clock Timer method isn’t working either. 😢

[@Crosshairz2794]

Same

[@Sya.111]

I hide all my personal photos.. so that if my someone takes my all they can see is some memes and dog photos

[@Quotaa]

I found the location of the lock screen within shortcuts. When you get to the When “app” is open screen click on new blank automation and then search for Lock Screen.

[@manmeetkaur6327]

Thank you :)

[@rexwhizz]

It works thanks

[@itouchapplemaster]

Does the first method continue to work even if someone let's say invokes your photo library from within another app? Presuming they can open an app that allows them to import photos to where IOS allows you to view all your photos without opening the actual photos app.

[@ia_ngela]

i literally love you thank you

[@KingTechHD]

This is a great method. Thanks man

[@123valve]

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

[@frankralph118]

Thanks bro❤️

[@vcrz8545]

Thank you so much king 👑

[@taniahaque0110]

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

[@lifeasaunie]

great video . thanks for this !

[@theopolinanauyoma]

Thank you very much.This helped a lot.❤

[@Thacitykg.]

Can you set up multiple SSID network details for unlock

[@vincekalbz1982]

Thank you🙂🙏🏻

[@lydiaeseuskwamis6660]

That’s perfect I love it work very well

[@TinusTK]

thank you so much !!

[@MsMegasharon]

Omg thank you thank you thank you. I saw the first minute and learned how to disable that annoying part from years ago. I was on the phone with apple and they even could not figure out after 45 minutes

[@NaturalBornWinner]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you, Brandon!

[@JaspreetSingh-ho9ri]

Thanks brother

[@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 ❤❤

[@RobbyRenaldhi]

why we need all this step when apple cares about simplicity😭

[@itsmeremember7851]

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

[@zubbywhite449]

Thanks Brandon

[@smartinez0403]

Thank you I love it

[@WashingtoDC954]

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

[@KailanFielding-vk9ce]

I don’t have this Lock Screen thing?

[@KCandtheSunshineGang]

Hey! Yes, I have iPhone 14 pro max running iOS 17 public beta and ‘lock screen’ wasn’t coming up for me either. I had to first go to shortcuts, new shortcut, add action, type in Lock Screen and it came up. I created that shortcut, then went back to the automation and there it was. Hope that helps 😃

[@RonaldBrown59]

Nice tutorial, thanks for sharing.

[@racsito39]

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

[@AlonzoLombardi]

Somehow in iOS 17 it is not working, at least with 3rd party apps. The shorcut just doesn't block the screen from a browser. Anyone alse?

[@ayeshaahana6090]

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

[@mariaibrahem9329]

Thank u for helping it works

[@BasilHerzallah]

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

[@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

[@StephanSann]

Nice video. Anyhow using the „close application lock“ is not the best way to protect your phone when you hand it off to another person. Depending on your settings this person could still get into control center and play around. The best protection would be guided access. I set an automaton to start guided access whenever the phone app is started. So if somebody asks me to lend out my phone for a call, I start the phone app and I can be sure the person can’t do anything else with my iPhone.

[@kiwi.kiwi.]

How do you create that automation since the shortcuts app is quite complex for me?

[@adeesvartan1395]

Is there a way to lock the shortcuts app by itself?

[@MrSamPhoenix]

We need an updated version of this video for iOS 17

[@Reaper-qq3iq]

Bro thank you