Can you use an Ipad as a big iPhone?

[MyLittleStudPony]

My mum is well into her eighties. Her eyesight is not good and getting worse.

She's struggling to see her iPhone now. This is hard for her, especially as a lot of her friends co-ordinate activities via Whatsapp etc.

Is it possible to get an iPad and set it up a bit like a big phone? She'd need the icons etc to be much bigger than they are on a regular phone, but maybe that's just a case of zooming in or something.

Any advice appreciated. I stopped using Apple stuff some time ago so don't really know.

[KungFooBob]

Old people use Doro phones with big buttons innit.

[MyLittleStudPony]

Thank you.

I think it's more seeing the screen than pressing the buttons which is the issue.

[636mick]

Fairly certain that it’s possible. My iPad rings when my iPhone rings, I have answered on the iPad in the past but no idea how I set it up in the first place. Ypu still have a keypad and access to contacts on the iPad and she could use it as a speakerphone instead of holding it to her ear.
Mick

[wull]

Yes you can use it as a phone, to a certain extent anyway, WhatsApp, FaceTime etc etc. Possibly even more so if used in conjunction with a iphone but don’t quote me on that.

When I purchased my iPad Pro back in 2018/19 it was a cellular iPad to begin with, had its own number, 5G or possibly 4G then, I can’t remember.

I still use the iPad now but I stopped the cellular side of things and just use it round the house. If I’m doing certain jobs at work like irrigating I take the iPad with me and steal the 5G from my phone allowing me to watch the usual stuff.

[Noggin]

If you get one that has a sim slot or esim ability, then no reason why not.

I think that the whatsapp set up is a bit different, but I can't remember why I think that - must have tried it on an old iPad, in which case that may well have been updated now as that would have been a few years ago

It's definitely possible to use an iPad as a phone, it definitely does FB, Messenger and phone texts. So, just verify the whatsapp and it'll be fine


EDIT -

Found this, ok, it's reddit! But it's a year ago, so I think it's ok.




Gimme ten and I'll see if I can download it on mine here (it's a uk one, so I haven't tried before !! )

[Noggin]

Yup - app loaded and seems to work fine!!