Mom's phone while in memory care
My mom has been moved into permanent memory care. She still has her Samsung A17 phone and can still call and text family. She also likes to play solitaire. I go and visit her every couple days. Quite often when I visit, I see her phone has been completely filled up with garbage apps. She has like 10 UI interfaces, each with a crazy amount of ads that hijack her phone. She also has dozens of 'battery optimizers' and 'data cleaners' along with a dozen or more solitaire and mahjong apps (she doesn't know how to play mahjong)
I've set the Google Play store to the most restrictive level, and added my own password she doesn't know. I put in a call blocker so her phone only rings when it's someone in her contact list. I've a couple apps that claim to prevent things from being installed, but they seem even worse than the stuff that was already getting in.
I suspect that she's finding these apps using the Chrome browser, but I'm not sure. When I ask her why she installs these programs, she claims that she doesn't do it and that the phone does it itself.
Does anyone know of a way to prevent apps from getting installed, or have any idea how she's finding them?
