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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister
and welcome to another ScreenCastsOnline
weekly tip video.
With new iPads always possible at the beginning of the year,
you may be looking to repurpose your older iPad.
Now one great use is to turn it into a digital photo frame.
If not for yourself, perhaps for friends or family.
You can use any iPad as a digital photo frame.
I'm going to use this iPad Pro just
for demonstration purposes,
as I want to use my Apple Pencil to point
a few things out to you.
Now firstly we need to create a shared photo library
and I'm assuming that you're using Apple photos.
And if we go into settings,
and then scroll down until we find photos,
so I'm using iCloud photo library
I'm also using iCloud photo sharing as well.
We're gonna use a shared photo album
as a source of our digital images.
The nice thing about that is that you can always
add digital images later.
You can also set it up so that other members
of the family can contribute photos as well
to the photo frame album.
So that's switched on.
So if I come out of here.
I go into photos.
First thing to do is to create our shared albums.
So if I go to shared, and then we'll hit the plus
at the top to create a new shared album.
I'm gonna call this photo frame.
And we'll say next.
Now, you don't necessarily need to add people to it
at this point.
You can add them later.
I'm just gonna go ahead and say create.
And there is my new photo frame.
No photos in as yet,
let's go head and add some photos, so hit plus.
I've some photos here from a trip we did
in this is the Vienna Christmas Market.
So I'm gonna go ahead and select that entire day's worth.
I can add them individually as well.
Or I can swipe to select them.
And we'll just select these other two as well.
And we'll say done.
So now photos will prepare those photos.
And now I can add a comment if I want.
But I'm just gonna go ahead and say post.
So we now have our images ready for our slideshow.
We're going to use the slideshow capabilities
of photos to generate the images within our photo frame.
But what I first need to do,
is to go ahead and set up some accessibility settings.
Cause we're the photo frame,
obviously you don't want people being to go in
and stop the photos application
or sort of move to different applications.
So you can set it so that it's just a single app
that will run on the iPad.
And the way you would do that is to go into settings
and then we need to go to general
because within general there is accessibility.
And within accessibility there is,
here we go, guided access.
Let's switch that on.
Now let's set a pass code.
If we want, I'm going to use touch ID.
We can also set a passcode as well.
Let's just go with one, two, three, four, five, six.
Okay, so that's five.
So if we come out of guided access,
there is time in the midst as well.
We'll leave that by default.
And we'll leave the accessibility shortcut off.
Basically, when I triple click the home button,
that will invoke the guided access setup.
So if we come out of here,
we'll go back into here.
Let's go ahead and set up our slideshow.
Now there is music.
Let me just tap again.
We'll go to options.
Let's switch. Whoops.
Let's pause that for now.
Go to options.
So I can change the theme, magazine, dissolve.
In fact I'll switch music off for now.
We'll say not to that.
And I'll switch it on repeat,
so that the images will cycle over and over.
So let's see what that looks like.
There we go.
Took it a little while,
but now we've got the images appearing in our slideshow.
So let me just pause that again.
Now I want to go into guided access mode.
So triple click on the home button.
Takes us into guided access.
Any hardware buttons that we want to switch on or off
so be default sleep and wake button
is disabled, volume buttons are disabled.
Perhaps I want to disable motion.
And also disable any key boards if key boards are attached.
Now you circle the areas on the screen
you would like to disable.
If I just tap on here,
that's the entire screen.
And then I also have the option for a time limit as well.
But I'm gonna leave that off.
So I should be able now to trouble click
to stop and start guided access.
So if we go ahead and say start.
Right. Guided access is now started.
But of course I can't actually start the slideshow.
One, two, three.
Passcode. Let's go and I'll say end.
We'll start the slideshow.
Triple click.
All right, and that slideshow will now continue
until somebody decides to go in and switch it off.
But they need to be able to triple click the home button
and they need to know the passcode.
So now if I touch the screen, nothing happens.
I can swipe, nothing happens.
I can press the power button. Nothing happens.
Okay. What you will need to be aware of though
is that you will need to have this connected to
a power source, obviously, otherwise it's gonna run
out of batteries pretty quickly.
But let's just triple click again.
Enter our passcode.
And we're now out of guided access.
We'll say end.
If we come out of here.
Now some of the settings you might want to check on.
Auto lock, you might want to switch off.
So if we come back, perhaps to general.
We want display and brightness.
Yep, auto lock I have set to never.
But you don't want it to auto unlock,
it's going to display your images.
And basically that's it set up.
The only other thing you might need to consider
if we go into here.
If we say done to our slideshow.
If we want to add to people to our slideshow.
So that people can access the shared album.
We can do it from here.
So we can invite people, we can allow subcribers
to post so anybody who's been invited to
the shared album.
If they submit photos to the shared album,
they will then appear within the photo frame.
And basically that is it.
So a nice easy way to set up an an iPad
as a digital photo frame.