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The smartphone is an important part of everyone’s life today. From day-to-day work, banking and personal details and many personal moments are saved in mobile phones, due to which we do not like to give our phone to anyone. But many times a situation arises when family or friends have to give their phone in case of urgent work. If nothing else, children ask for a phone in the name of playing games. There is a lot of difficulty in such a situation that those people should not open any other app, photo gallery or message etc. and do not start peeping. To avoid such a situation, we are going to tell you such a great trick, by adopting which you will be able to decide in advance that your phone to whom you are going to give your phone will be able to use only that thing for which he has Is sought
Will support you in this trick, Screen Pinning. Screen pinning is not a new thing but a tool already present in all Android smartphones. Maybe some of you have heard its name before but for those people who are still unaware of this amazing feature of Android phones, we have brought today’s tips and tricks segment. After activating the screen pinning, the function you choose will work only on the phone and your friends or children will not be able to open anything other than that. And even if someone tries to open another app, the phone’s password will be asked for it, which only you know.
Screen pinning
1. Open the phone settings, after scrolling down here, you will get the option of ‘Security’ and click on it. Significantly, in some phones, this option can also be given under the name ‘Security and Location’.
2. The option of ‘Screen Pinning’ will appear in the security, click on it.
3. Turn on the screen pinning here, along with other options will be provided according to which the password will be asked for turning off the screen pinning, turn it on as well.
4. After pinning on here, now open the app that your friend, family or child has asked for the phone to use.
5. After opening the app, press the Home button directly, which will move the app in the background.
6. Now press the overview button, which will start showing all minimized apps, here you will see some point like icon along with that selected app, click on it.
7. Here the option of ‘Pin’ will be seen, click on it. That app will be pinned as soon as tapped. Now you can feel free to give your phone to anyone, no person will be able to open any app other than that app.
8. If anyone tries to unpin an app, then they will be asked for a password or fingerprint touch, which will be known only to you.
How to UnPin
When your phone comes to you, the app will have to be unpinned to bring it back to normal mode. For this…
9 .. Press the overview button and the back button under the display simultaneously. Pressing both buttons will unpin the app.
10. Once the app is unpinned, the password of the phone will be asked, by filling it, you can start using your phone again.
Suggestion: Do not try this trick with your wife, the cost of Band-Aid or Iodex may increase.
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