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I think if you want a device that's just gonna call people something with physical affordances is going to work better.

OK, this was a me problem because I'd already set the zoom on this iPhone to be really big (for the same reasons I'm setting up Assistive Access!!) and it hid all the UI I needed to set this up correctly.

Gah.

Hmm. So the way that passcodes work is:

- there is a passcode to get out of Assistive Access mode
- there is a global passcode

if you want daily use of Assistive Access without a passcode, I think you have to turn off the global pass code? I don't really want to have to turn off the global passcode but given the tap targets for the number pad are really small maybe I'll have too.

(Maybe this is an iPhone SE scaling issue???)

Oh well. I give this nil point for ease of setup and I think the unlocking number pad problem is show stopping for my use case.

Hope Apple can improve this because it's a super important feature set

This seems like a fair review. The things my intended user has the biggest problem with are dealing with updates and dropping off the WiFi.

> Even once you get the phone into Assistive Access mode, it's not a case of set-and-forget. You need to take the iPhone out of Assistive access to perform basic iPhone tasks like updating or downloading apps, joining a new Wi-Fi network

https://www.tomsguide.com/features/i-tried-apples-alternative-iphone-interface-in-ios-17-heres-what-happened

A place where I would direct Apple's attention to for designing for dementia specifically is user research on how folks gradually stop using their phones. Prolonging someone's ability to use their phone grants a great amount of agency and belonging if they can, e.g., still Facetime their family.

If it can be done ethically, pinpointing events where this happens and mitigating those might get them somewhere.