Share your phone
Ways to share your phone
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If you share your phone with family, friends, or within a business, you can set
up separate user spaces for each of them.
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This is a more temporary space that you or the guest can delete
when finished.
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This lets you keep one specific app or screen in view. For example, you
can pin a game and your child cannot navigate anywhere else on your phone.
About owners, users, and guests
The owner can:
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Determine whether users and guests can make phone calls and send text messages,
which also allows them to see the phone's call history and text history.
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Reset, update, and uninstall any apps.
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Delete user and guests, removing any associated accounts and data from the phone.
Users and guests can:
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Set up
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Set up a
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Customize the home screen and settings for their spaces.
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Add and delete apps for their spaces, and update any apps they use, regardless of who
installed them.
Important:
To prevent others from switching to your owner profile and accessing your
information, set a
before you share your phone with users or guests.
When sharing your phone with users and guests, some apps are only available to the owner,
not to other users and guests.
Switch users
Only the owner can switch to the guest profile for loaning the phone and can switch between
user profiles.
To switch user profiles or see which is currently active, open
. At the top of the
screen, you'll see one of these icons after you've
.
Other settings : System : Users and guests
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