If you are a PC user, you are surely familiar with the guest mode. We all take all the necessary steps for the safety of our privacy, let it be online or offline. We use different software and different kind of features to save our privacy. Talking about PC, we have options to create user profiles for different users. This way, different users can use the same pc, but they can not access or modify other user’s data. This is where the new Android Guest Mode feature comes in. It allows you to make different user profiles on your smartphone.
These days Phones started taking the place of PCs. Yes, they are not as powerful as PCs, but most of the work can be done using phones. With time phones started giving huge storage to users, and because of this, many of us store our data on phones. Because of this, the question of privacy rises. To overcome this, just like PC, we have the Guest Mode feature on the phones too. You can use it when you have to give your phone to others or if kids are using your phone. In this article, we will give you all the information about the Android guest mode feature. And also tell you the process to enable and disable it.
What Is Android Guest Mode?
In simple words, by using The Android guest mode, the user can create a new profile on the phone. This profile has limited access to files and apps on the phone. This way, if you are giving your phone to someone else, you can protect your data and applications. In guest mode, the guest user can access only the built-in and pre-installed applications. The application installed by you will not be visible to them.
However, If the new user who is using the phone in Android guest mode can install new apps, but it will not affect the other user’s data. If the new user using the guest mode tries to install an app that is already installed in the main user’s profile, it will be copied and installed as a new app. Same as before, it will not affect the main user’s app data.
