Hey, Apple. You Need Me.

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Hey, Apple. You Need Me.I’ve never worked in production. Have never been part of a product development team, a designer or inventor of any kind. The best things I ever made are my kids, and even then I needed some help.

Since becoming a mom I feel like there are so many ways to make things easier, more efficient, better to help out the one-handed mamas (and dadas), no-handed-only-using-shoulders-and-elbows parents.

The Roomba is genius. A vacuum cleaner that goes on its own? With minimal supervision? Hey, Roomba, I’ll take my free sample any day now.

Even Siri can be a lifesaver. The Reminders on our phones make sure we stop by the store for last day festivity snacks and birthday presents for that one girl with the toothy grin in your son’s class who you’re pretty sure has a crush on him and that’s the only reason he’s invited to her all-girl princess birthday party.

With all of these new technological releases, somehow, Apple has yet to introduce this one thing. This one thing that I’m about to divulge and expect full payment for when Apple reads this post and the inevitable light bulb goes off.

My new iPhone 6s allows me to include five different fingerprints on my Touch ID. They can be five of my own fingers, or five of my friends and family. It doesn’t matter. These allow the phone to be unlocked and approve purchases on iTunes and the App Store. What it doesn’t do is allow me to include the fingerprint of each of my children and then only unlock certain areas of my phone.

See what I did there, Apple?

A capability of iPhone 7 models (or an update to the 6 and 6s) should include fingerprint recognition that unlocks only previously selected apps and locations of the phone.

Step one, a numeric password would still be required to access the set up page. Step two, parents select which apps are usable. Step three, once selected hit Continue and the phone’s owner has the ability to input a fingerprint that is recognized for these specific apps only. Maybe you have the option of selecting multiple fingerprints for the apps selected in step two, or you can even make us go through the entire process again for the second fingerprint.

Seriously, to keep little Bobby from dialing our bosses and leaving a voicemail of us calling him an ass hat would be worth going through each step for each child.

Parents, rejoice. Tim Cook, I’m here for you. Now, it’s time to pay up for my brilliance.

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