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Senior-Proofing a ln Android Phone
My grandmother is a sweet, 90-something year old woman who uses her smartphone (Pixel 6A) for 4 main things: keeping in touch with her family, viewing photos of her great-grandchildren, browsing Facebook, and playing solitaire. Unfortunately the last two things cause MANY problems and I need the help of the community to find a solution.
What happens is she just clicks on things and they get installed on her phone. Just to give you a snapshot of the issues: In span of 4-days since I last cleaned her phone, she installed 23 versions of solitaire and some spammy app I couldn't target that resulted in pop-up ads in every app including Settings and the Play Store. At it's worst, she had upwards of 70 different solitaire apps because her advertising algorithm just shows her ads you more and more solitaire apps.
She's not on my Google family plan so I seemingly can't set up parental controls for her. Is there a way to lock down what gets installed? Is there a good launcher anyone can recommend? Is there a smartphone that is good for seniors because it's so limited (but can still play solitaire)?
Help me, Reddit. You might be my only hope.
EDIT: Sorry for the typo in the subject line.
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My grandmother is a sweet, 90-something year old woman who uses her smartphone (Pixel 6A) for 4 main things: keeping in touch with her family, viewing photos of her great-grandchildren, browsing Facebook, and playing solitaire. Unfortunately the last two things cause MANY problems and I need the help of the community to find a solution.
What happens is she just clicks on things and they get installed on her phone. Just to give you a snapshot of the issues: In span of 4-days since I last cleaned her phone, she installed 23 versions of solitaire and some spammy app I couldn't target that resulted in pop-up ads in every app including Settings and the Play Store. At it's worst, she had upwards of 70 different solitaire apps because her advertising algorithm just shows her ads you more and more solitaire apps.
She's not on my Google family plan so I seemingly can't set up parental controls for her. Is there a way to lock down what gets installed? Is there a good launcher anyone can recommend? Is there a smartphone that is good for seniors because it's so limited (but can still play solitaire)?
Help me, Reddit. You might be my only hope.
EDIT: Sorry for the typo in the subject line.
https://redd.it/1xlkhzx
@reddit_android
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