If the other day we were talking about Screen Mode established as a useful and unknown tool in the latest versions of Android to protect your privacy, the one we show you today may have a similar utility. Both serve to protect your phone from snoops if you lend the device to someone; but the Guest Mode that we explain how to activate It also allows someone to have their own account on the terminal.
Make the case that you leave your phone to a friend or family member to show them a video on YouTube, a post on Facebook, a note from Google Keep or the price of an app in the Play Store. Imagine that that friend or relative has little respect for the privacy and secrets of others and as soon as they pick up the phone, they close the app and start browsing the Gallery. That's what Fixed Screen Mode is for. Guest mode is something much more radical: if you regularly lend the phone, create a second space for the person in question.
This second space can be used for someone to have their pre-installed apps and occasional shortcuts to the terminal, or even for safeguard your privacy in these cases. It can even serve to simply have two spaces to alternate. Each space works as a different profile in the terminal, with your own phone settings, from screen brightness to mute, vibration or alarms.
How to activate Guest Mode or Second Space
If yours is a Android pure possibly you will find the Private Mode by the following path: Settings> Users and accounts> Users> Guest. In any case, if by any chance you cannot find it, try typing in the search engine of the Settings tab of your terminal the words "Second space", "guest mode" or "private space".
In terminals XiaomiFor example, the path is Settings and Second space. The terminal will begin to configure itself and will ask you for a pin or a pattern, both the one in the first space and the one in the second.
Once installed, you will see a shortcut on the terminal screen which is what takes you from one space to another. Delete the second space It has no more mystery: you return to the route that was mentioned before and in the same second space option you discard it. For the rest, you must follow each of the steps to do so.
Create a guest account in new versions of Android
The latest versions of Android also allow you to create a guest mode, an account with which to use the device without having access to the main information. There will be some limitations in some cases, and the terminal administrator will be the one who grants the corresponding permissions to that user.
It works on Android 12, it also does the same in version 13, so if you have the latest one known and recognized as stable, it is valid. The session is usually ideal in case you want to lend the device and want to browse, make a call from a blank phonebook and other procedures.
To create a guest account on higher versions of Android, Do the following:
- Enter the “Settings” of the phone and then go to the “System” option
- Inside you will see a setting called "Users", this may vary depending on the manufacturer of the terminal, you can use the top search engine and put "Users"
- After logging in, you will see an option called “Guest Mode.”, here you can create a user if you want
- Click on "Add guest", assign a name if you want, it is important to enter this one and not another, we can also leave the field blank
- You have to click on "Create guest" and give the permissions you want, which may be a few
- Exit the settings, get to the home screen and go to the quick settings, click on the user icon and now put the one you want, including the one you created
Switching between users will take just a few seconds, as long as you go to the quick settings and load one profile or another, it doesn't take much time and you can pass the phone. It will work from Android 10 onwards, including the latest stable one, which is Android 13, as well as the previous ones (10, 11 and 12).
Remove a guest account
After seeing how to create a guest account on Android, the other way is to remove the user, if you see that you no longer use it, the appropriate thing is that you go through this since said person no longer has use. Creating guests is something you can do over time, but if they accumulate, eliminate them one by one.
Complete deletion is just as simple as creating a profile, so the idea is to go through the device settings, which will save you. It is important that if you have something in them that you save it, such as a phone, some images, videos or anything that has been saved in said session, there is the option to move this to the administrator storage.
If you want to delete a guest account, you must do these steps:
- A quick way to remove a user is from the known settings like fast on your device
- Open the quick settings, go to "User" and after entering, click on "Remove guest" and confirm with "Remove", after that you will delete the one you have chosen
- If you don't see it in the quick settings, you have to go to "Settings" and then "System", once inside go to the section called "Users" and you will see the account created with the name, if not, you have the opportunity to make some small changes from within
- To delete, choose the user and click on the three dots, click on "Delete user" and confirm, being deleted, will show you a message that the deletion has been carried out satisfactorily, so you can confirm that it does not appear by entering "Users" again and looking at the available ones