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Apple Highlights Guest and Travel Modes on Vision Pro

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In a press release outlining entertainment options on the Vision Pro, Apple also briefly highlighted Guest User and Travel Mode features on the headset.

Apple Vision Pro Guest
With the Guest User mode, you can let family and friends use your Vision Pro with limited access to certain apps, such as Photos and Safari. Apple says the primary user's Apple ID account settings, Optic ID, passcode, passwords, Apple Pay, Persona, and health data will be restricted while the Guest User mode is active.

Guest User mode was discovered last year in the visionOS simulator, part of Apple's app development tool Xcode. Once the mode is turned on, it will automatically shut off if the headset is not worn within five minutes, the simulator showed.

Apple Vision Pro Travel Mode
When turned on via Control Center, Apple says Travel Mode stabilizes visuals on the Vision Pro for users wearing the headset on an airplane. Travel Mode was first discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser last year in visionOS beta code, with more details about this feature outlined in our coverage at the time.

In fine print related to Travel Mode, Apple warns that the Vision Pro should obviously not be used while operating a moving vehicle.

Vision Pro can be pre-ordered in the U.S. starting Friday, January 19 at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, and it launches on Friday, February 2.

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Timo_Existencia
35 months ago

Until Vision Pro efficiency (or amped up battery) can handle 6 hours on a plane, it’s a non-starter for most.
In my recent travel experiences, all long haul flights I've taken had power outlets available for use.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Rychiar
35 months ago
Dammit i wanted to drive my car with multiple screens showing my rear view cams🤪
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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zach-coleman
35 months ago
I’m glad they thought of this. I was beginning to think there was going to be no way to show this off to someone else without letting them go through all your stuff with zero supervision. Bad luck for people with glasses, though.

Also how long before someone violates that warning and drives while wearing one? Surely on launch day, right?
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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vertsix
35 months ago
Expect to be laughed at.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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contacos
35 months ago
Further proof that Apple never bothered to integrate a Guest Mode into iPadOS to sell iPads to each family members while you can’t expect a family to buy multiple Vision Pro at 3,5k each
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Lounge vibes 05
35 months ago

Expect to be laughed at.
I was reading some threads on MR from 2014 just to have a laugh.
“You'd have to be a real tool to wear that thing. Fugly.”
“Did they promote the designer of the iphone 5c. People wont buy this with a beats logo”
“I don t understand why they think people want a watch who's display is always off and hard to read in direct sunlight...”
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So much money they invested on this crap that could have made sapphire iPhone with liquid metal or maybe a Retina iMac etc.

Why you have to follow the followers Apple...?

we miss you Steve!”
“One of the reasons why the Samsung watch flopped was that it was just too expensive, and this crap thing is even more expensive.”

Not saying that the Vision Pro will be a day one success, or even a success at all, but within two years of all these comments, that product they were bashing in 2014 was the best selling watch on the market and all those people bashing it no doubt already had one.

The AirPods turn around was even quicker.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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