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by adastra22 575 days ago
Not a phone, but at my old apartment I used to have an iPad mounted on the wall. It was a dynamic weather display, Ring doorbell answerer, multimedia control, etc. Would suck if every 3 days I had to enter my passcode again.
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I haven’t tested this, but I assume this wouldn’t occur if the device is fully unlocked and powered on. Most kiosk adjacent deployments are setup so that they never turn the screen off and remain unlocked.
Looks like something that doesn't need to have a passcode on it in the first place.
I have something like this as well, connected to my Apple account for calendar and reminder access etc. I wouldn’t want every random guest to have access to that.
iPad has a kiosk mode for these use cases.