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The article is not useless as many might think.

It is a pity that it is not as well thought out as it appears. For example, the suggestion to remove system applications will almost immediately lead to a bootloop.

I, for example, have a hard time imagining how to protect elderly parents from a text message that will send them a link that, when clicked, will bombard them with suggestions to enable notifications, and then notifications will bombard them with suggestions to do something else.




Hey I'm the author. I definitely didn't mean to imply you should remove critical system apps (I don't think that's possible on vanilla iOS). More just that it's worth deleting most apps beyond the basics like calls,text,calendar,maps etc


out of curiosity, do you make money from your blog or recommending apps?


hey nah I don't (it's a very new blog!). In the future though I'm considering purchasing and writing reviews of specific "dumb phones" like the Nokia 6300 4g. There's an affiliate marketing angle there, and I'm also considering creating Youtube review videos too.


Apple had added assistive mode well suited for seniors — https://www.theseniorlist.com/cell-phones/assistive-access/




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