My “confused proverbial grandmother” has already been tricked away from using safari. She does all of her web browsing through the Google app.
Not the Google Chrome app. The Google app. :facepalm:
I’ve tried to explain why this isn’t necessary but as far as she knows, google is the internet. And I cannot say anything to convince her otherwise. After all, every search in safari will re-advertise to her “hey you should be doing this in the google app” and she will click the button without even thinking.
My wife seems to only use the Google app as well. The G app has a confusing multiple back button design. The normal safari back button takes you back to Google homepage and the other back button iPad the bottom in your history. Whenever she shows me something in the Google App I always pick the wrong one.
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how we're afraid of which search interface Grandma uses.
A hundred years ago, we'd be worried about getting knifed by strangers, bear maulings, starving to death, being homeless, eating food laced with botulism and lead, influenza, tuberculosis, diphtheria ...
To be fair, I think the origin of the worry may be that the elderly and less technically inclined are prone to being taken advantage of (rightly or wrongly). You're very correct that things are better than ever, as it were, but vulnerability seems to have endured in some ways.
Just like mine, who also accesses her photos by unlocking her phone, going to the camera app, and then to her photo roll. She never goes to the Photos app directly.
Not the Google Chrome app. The Google app. :facepalm:
I’ve tried to explain why this isn’t necessary but as far as she knows, google is the internet. And I cannot say anything to convince her otherwise. After all, every search in safari will re-advertise to her “hey you should be doing this in the google app” and she will click the button without even thinking.