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Recommendation for mobile phone foe elderly person

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  • Vitor
    Vitor Posts: 719 Forumite
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    whatever phone she has weird things happen - 

    That the Achilles heel of any sort of tech, elderly people seem to find the most perverse ways of messing up the settings like they press random buttons 24*7. Should have a PIN controlled settings menu.
  • KxMx
    KxMx Posts: 11,167 Forumite
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    edited 21 August at 9:12PM
    Once, she couldn't use her banking app, upon investigation she'd managed to delete Play Store so loads of updates hadn't been done. 

    I locked the home screen in an attempt to stop similar, unsuccessful.

    Recently set up a smart plug for her then when I went back few days later to gain remote control, the app had vanished! 

    So the second time I removed the app from home screen 🤞🏻

    Often she'll say that she's lost her messages, what she's done is create loads of homescreen tabs. 
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