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About the Guest User account
If someone just wants to use your device temporarily, you can enable a guest
account for this user. In guest mode, your device starts up as a freshly installed
system with only the pre-installed apps. Once your guest is finished using your
device, you can wipe the session clean so that the next guest can start fresh. The
guest user account is pre-installed and cannot be deleted.
To activate the guest user account
1
Make sure you are logged in as the owner, that is, the user who set up the
device for the first time.
2
From your Home screen, tap
3
Find and tap Settings > Users > Guest.
You can also activate the guest user account from the status bar on any screen. Just drag the
status bar downwards using two fingers and tap the user icon, then tap Add guest.
To allow the guest user to make phone calls
1
Make sure you are logged in as the owner.
2
From your Home screen, tap
3
Find and tap Settings > Users.
4
beside Guest, then drag the slider beside Turn on phone calls to the
Tap
right.
To clear the guest session data
1
Make sure you are logged in to the guest account.
2
From your Home screen, tap
3
Find and tap Settings > Users.
4
Find and tap Remove guest.
5
Tap Remove.
You can also clear the guest session from the status bar on any screen as long as you are
logged in to the guest account. Just drag the status bar downwards using two fingers and tap
the user icon, then tap Remove guest.
Switching between multiple user accounts
To switch between multiple user accounts
1
To view the list of users, drag the status bar downwards using two fingers,
then tap the user icon at the top right of the screen.
2
Tap the icon representing the user account that you want to switch to. The lock
screen for that user account appears.
When you switch to the guest account, tap Start again if you want to wipe the previous
session or tap Yes, continue to continue the previous session.
Each user can set their own lock screen. See
Settings for multiple user accounts
There are three different types of settings on devices with multiple users:
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Settings that can be changed by any user and affect all users. Examples include
language, Wi-Fi®, Airplane mode, NFC and Bluetooth®.
•
Settings that only affect an individual user account. Examples include automatic data
syncing, screen lock, various accounts added, and wallpaper.
•
Settings that are only visible to the owner and affect all users, for example, VPN
settings.
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