Smartphone Tricks - 2

Screen Pinning...

What happens when you want to lend a friend or young family member your phone—but don’t want them rooting through your private information or posting to your social media accounts? 

Screen pinning lets you be generous without giving up your privacy. Pinning one app to the screen means that your phone will only run that app until someone enters the lock screen code or use your finger print again. Essentially, the user won’t be able to access any other parts of your phone without your consent.

Screen pinning is easy to set up. Follow these steps:

Open Settings, go to the Security menu, and enable screen pinning. 

Now close all the running apps by tapping the Overview tab (square navigation button) and clicking on close all apps. You can skip this step but it will save you lot of confusion if you close all running apps before pinning the one you want to share.

Once you’ve done that, now launch the app your friend needs to use.

Now open Overview by tapping the square navigation button below the phone screen. 

On the window, you should see a pin icon (it looks like a little thumbtack) in the lower right-hand corner. Tap the pin button to pin that app to the screen. It will lock that app and will also let you know how to get out of it.

Good Luck folks. For any queries, search the google and do something yourself as well.

By: Nadeem Alam Awan

Email: nadeemalam78@gmail.com