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Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?
- benvanderbeek 15y agoPrivacy is important. But why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone? Keep it somewhere else. Or say, "hold on let me log out of my bank app" or something.
- TechNewb 15y agoBecause the 'phone' is just a small subset of my iPhone. I would be curious to see my most used apps, but I imagine the phone app would be about an 11, with skype at 10.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago> But why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone? Keep it somewhere else. My girlfriend texting me about medical issues isn't "weird", but I still don't want my mom to read it if I happen to hand him my phone for a few minutes. My mom emailing me photos of my childhood self taking a bath isn't weird, but I wouldn't want my friends to see them. My friend asking me if I'll be showing up to the Atheist Association meetup isn't weird, but I wouldn't necessarily want my boss to see the message.
- sambeau 15y agoMy friend asking me if I'll be showing up to the Atheist Association meetup isn't weird, but I wouldn't necessarily want my boss to see the message. Wow. I'm glad I don't live in a country where that would even be an issue. It would never occur to me as something anyone would need to be private in any country(until now). (Or do you work for a fundamentalist religious organisation?)
- pavel_lishin 15y agoThat was actually hypothetical - none of my current or past bosses would care. We did have a lot of religious clients at my old job, but they probably wouldn't care, either. There are, however, places where it would definitely lead to a change in the work environment. > It would never occur to me as something anyone would need to be private in any country Even in countries ostensibly ruled by sharia law?
- jiggy2011 15y agoBeing from the UK the whole idea of having an atheist organisation seems a little odd. Most people are technically christian but don't go to church and their beleif is fairly skin deep. Religious apathy is sort of the default and religion doesn't really dictate public policy very much so having an atheist society would be a bit like having a society for heterosexual people. Are atheists really marginalized enough in the US that it becomes necessary to band together?
- jiggy2011 15y agonot sure why the downvotes here?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI didn't up- or down-vote, but probably because the conversation is rapidly heading off-topic.
- kennu 15y ago"Hold on, let me log out of my Facebook app, my Messenger app, my Twitter app, my WhatsApp app, my Path app, my Yammer app, my LinkedIn app, my Evernote app, ... And disable all my email accounts and iMessage and clear my text messages and web history. Here you go."
- forensic 15y ago>keep it somewhere else Where? Keep my naked girlfriend pics in a recipe box? Wtf are you even saying? I'd rather not turn into a dull prude just because apple is too lazy to implement a guest account on their unix OS. I'm trying to imagine how dull and colorless your life must be. I took the pictures with my phone. The obvious place to keep them is on my phone.
- TechNewb 15y agoThere is an app for that. :) Seriously. But agreed, a guest account for iOS would be awesome.
- benvanderbeek 15y agoSo the civil answer to my question "why not just avoid keeping weird stuff on your phone?" is: "I keep naked girlfriend pics on my iPhone. I don't think that's weird, but I don't want someone to see them." I see your point. I apologize for using the word "weird." I assume that's what the downvotes were for.
- forensic 15y agoCivil answers are overrated. I'm really sick of corporate leaders (e.g. You) telling me I should change my life to suit them. Their job is to accommodate the customer regardless of how weird my hobbies may be.
- benvanderbeek 15y ago"corporate leaders (e.g. You)" I'm honored, and confused, that you would consider me a corporate leader. Like I said, I see your point. And if you look at my comment, it was in the form of a question, not an imperative.
- viraptor 15y agoMy bank sends me summary of my account every once in a while. I don't want a random person to see it pop up.
- baddox 15y agoThe "two PINs" idea would also be great for when a police officer pulls you over and asks you to hand over and unlock your phone. With the proper encryption you could even have plausible deniability.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoHaven't people suggested this with regards to TrueCrypt's hidden volumes, with "rubber-hose cryptography" being the most common answer, and "yeah, well, prove that this is your REAL phone unlock code" being the second most common.
- tadfisher 15y agoProve that it isn't, officer.
- lsb 15y agoNo cellphones are allowed in top secret military locations in the US, because all can be remotely signalled to start recording audio. We know they'll turn a phone into a bug if they need to, so it's foolish to assume they wouldn't be able to get the real PIN.
- schiffern 15y agoDo you have any evidence that indicates that this is the reason? A much more likely explanation for the policy involves abuse by the user, either intentionally or unintentionally. Cameras and USB sticks are similarly restricted.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoYeah, I'm sure that the Princeton, TX police department has access to CIA-level technology, and will use it to prove that I was texting while driving.
- pjscott 15y agoWith that, you've just admitted that you're aware of the possibility of setting up multiple profiles with different unlock codes. Be careful what information you leak when you're trying to look innocent!
- tomkarlo 15y agoThis is also why any app that handles sensitive information (including, arguably, the photo and video galleries) on a phone should have at least the _option_ to set an in-app PIN that's required before it opens up. Lots of folks hand their smartphone to their kids to play games and even if there's nothing sensitive on there, they might have things they don't want deleted like treasured photos and videos.
- groby_b 15y agoIt's not only about deletion. There's also the issue that you might want to restrict who can see what photos. (I.e. PINs on subsets of your pix)
- joezydeco 15y agoHell, I'd be happy if iOS had a way to lock down the Springboard so my kids can't screw up my home screen every time they get their hands on a device. Does anyone else come back to find all their apps dragged into countless random folders?
- freehunter 15y agoAt work we're required to have a PIN lock on our phones if we have our email or calendar synced to it. Majorly inconvenient to have a system-wide lock, why not just give the option to set a PIN before the email accounts can be opened?
- kefs 15y agocompletely possible on android. https://market.android.com/search?q=app+lock&c=apps&price=1&sort=0 https://market.android.com/search?q=app+lock&c=apps&...
- ConstantineXVI 15y agoI'm more bewildered to why no tablets seem to have multi-user functionality. In my experience, tablets get shared far more often than phones.
- walexander 15y agoI work for a tablet manufacturer, and I spoke to an Android product manager at I/O last year about this. According to him, this is a feature that pops up once in awhile, but they have a long list of stuff to do and this is just one of those things that always gets bumped out. From my perspective as a platform dev, I'd like to get into some of the technical problems with changing this, but I could end up breaking some NDAs or something. I'll just say, when you start mucking around with adding login code, file system changes, and the current dmcrypt encryption, you hit lots of fun design problems.
- parfe 15y ago>you hit lots of fun design problems. Single user login is a design problem! When I hand my tablet off to someone they have access to my gmail, gtalk, facebook, twitter, imap email, browser sessions and dropbox. And that's just what I can recall on the fly.
- dhughes 15y agoThere are two your account and the hidden root account ;)
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- forrestthewoods 15y ago"Why Don’t Smartphones Have A Guest Mode?" Because dealing with multiple profiles and/or different profile types is a fucking huge giant pain the ass and a monumental amount of work! Xbox has local, guest, live silver, and live gold accounts. Dealing with all the different profiles and switching between is a nightmare. Urgh, no thanks.
- burgerbrain 15y agoWasn't this a solved problem... 40 years ago? At least?
- groby_b 15y agoSure. If you're willing to log out of your smart phone context, and restart any needed tools in the new guest context whenever you hand over your phone. Oh, I'm sorry, you wanted instantaneous user switching? That's a smidgen harder than the 40-year-old solutions :)
- pygorex 15y agoYou mean Fast user switching? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_user_switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_user_switching
- groby_b 15y agoI mean fast user switching on a resource-constrained portable device. There's a bit of a difference in terms of how to do it. (See also my above post listing some of the issues)
- zokier 15y agoCurrent gen mobile phones are already more powerful than my first Windows XP desktop. I don't think computing resources are a limiting factor here.
- jerrya 15y agoSomewhat related: I've long wondered why ATM cards don't have something similar. 1234 is my regular PIN. 1235 is my help I'm being robbed PIN -- it dispenses the cash, calls the cops, and tags the video.
- masklinn 15y agoProbably because the SIM standard has no provision for two local PINs.
- polymatter 15y agoWill people change banks for it (compared to say, vague promises of better customer service)? Will people pay a premium for it (compared to say, offering more air miles)? I'd be willing to bet that for most people it simply isn't worth the investment for them.
- brk 15y agoWill people remember to use 1235 ONLY in an emergency? And never accidentally use it? And never use it when they feel "threatened" by the scary looking hipster hanging out by the ATM? I would tend to guess it would cause more problems than it solves.
- atakan_gurkan 15y agoExactly! I would just be repeating what you say, but I'll say it anyhow. False positive rate must be considered before putting such a measure in place.
- there 15y agothere are at least a few big companies already doing virtualization with android to separate business and personal modes so that corporate email and other apps can be quarantined off with a secure password, leaving personal email and games to run in a separate environment that may not require as much security to unlock. presumably the same technology could be used to provide "normal" and guest environments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXJjCN2G-A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXJjCN2G-A
- rkon 15y agoBetter yet, why hasn't anyone created an app that just simulates a guest mode? A launcher with two sets of home screens would be perfect. Or, you just disable your preferred launcher when handing your phone to a friend, revealing the mostly barren stock screens. It's as simple as hiding icons, since the apps might as well not exist if the icons aren't there (access doesn't actually need to be explicitly forbidden, per se). Maybe I'm missing something important here, but it seems many apps on the Android market are just a few tweaks away from doing this already?
- pyre 15y agoNot all games have a separation of user data. Some games basically only have one save slot, so that starting a new game wipes out the save data.
- freehunter 15y agoThis caused me to be beat upside the head with a Gameboy repeatedly when I was young when I hit "new game" on my cousin's Pokemon Red.
- HackR 15y agoIf you were my cousin who did that to me, you wouldn't exist today, to put it lightly.
- nopassrecover 15y agoThis was done to me by cousins and brothers maybe 4-5 times (with very well developed games before each time). I understand the frustration (although what you describe sounds a bit full on) particularly as I'm pretty sure you had to start a new game then save.
- zacharyvoase 15y agoAs far as I'm concerned the only 'Guest Mode' I need on my phone is the emergency call screen. I'm totally willing to be the 'weirdo' who won't let someone use his phone.
- z2amiller 15y agoI was thinking of something related to this earlier today. One thing I'd really like from the emergency call screen is to allow me to tag several of my contacts as emergency contacts. That way if my phone is stolen, or I am hurt in an accident, the list of proper people to notify is very apparent.
- evandena 15y agoYeah, the old ICE contact.
- gcb 15y agoa phone in guest mode would be totally useless. case 1: no apps. guest has to install apps. will guest have a itunes/android market account? does he enter his Credit card to buy paid ones he want to use? case 2: apps with no data from real user. He opens up foursquare/yelp to look for a restaurant... has to create profile
- schiffern 15y agoLooking at the mocked-up screenshots in the article, he's proposing that the user customize which apps are available. Note "Configure Guest Access" in Settings.app.
- dextorious 15y ago"""case 2: apps with no data from real user. He opens up foursquare/yelp to look for a restaurant... has to create profile""" And that somehow makes it totally useless? He can: talk on the phone, check his email on the web browser, surf to anything he likes, use any other app that doesn't require a profile, play a game, ..., ..., ... Even calling case 1 "totally useless" is retarded. He can still do tons of stuff (call, browse, use as calculator, ...) except run apps.
- wh-uws 15y agoThese guys are kind of working in this: http://www.famigo.com/ http://www.famigo.com/ Their approach is targeted at kids though, I'd love to see someone tackle the general purpose approach. Sounds like a great project for someone with a lot of free time. I rememeber hearing that the guy who came up with what is currently the ios notification style was hired by Apple after his jailbroken hack. The void is wide open for someone to solve this well and be rewarded for it
- Jun8 15y agoI have heard many, many times from parents whose kids play with their iPhones, iPads, etc. that they would like to have this mode where only the current app is active, WiFi is disabled, etc. Kids are quick to figure out how to buy extra stuff from within the app.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoInteresting idea, but I don't see many use cases. Are people really handing their phones out that often? I only hand my phone to someone else when: * I've asked them to take a photo of me. * They're riding shotgun in my car and need to call a contact or navigate with info readily available on my phone. Neither situation is risk for people snooping around.
- cookiecaper 15y agoIt happens to me often enough. Maybe it's just if you have friends who are interested in gadgets, but they will usually say things like, "Oh, you got a new phone? Can I see it?", "Oh, you installed a new ROM? Can I see it?", "Oh, I was wondering how this worked on that phone, can I try it on yours?" All of these are generic requests that just involve tapping around a lot to get a feel for the device, and they're all totally valid requests that one wants to fulfill to help his friends experience more stuff. Also, some people just don't consider their phones private and don't understand why anyone else would. My parents or siblings sometimes want to flip through Gallery to see the newest pictures of my children, friends, or co-workers. A couple misplaced photos can be quite the liability in a situation like that...
- nextparadigms 15y agoThe guest mode is a great idea. But for now, if you have very private stuff on your Android phone, you can lock down on an app-per-app basis. This could be a little inconvenient, though, and either you always keep them password protected, or you have to remember to protect them before you give the phone to someone.
- BadassFractal 15y agoProbably for the same reason a lot of other good features don't get implemented: there are higher more impactful features to be implemented first, a bigger bang for the company's buck.
- Zarathust 15y agoThe reason I don't log on someone else's phone is not because they don't want me to, is because I don't want to! Just the same reason why I usually don't log in on an untrusted computer. Maybe just for browsing the internet it would be allright, but I won't hand over my passwords. Isn't there any keylogger yet for android/ios? You don't even need to go by the store/marketplace, just local, developper stuff and there you go. Do you want to log on my machine?
- rocketsfan 15y agoI'd benefit from a "Driving Mode" on my phone. If John, Rachel, or Stan calls, auto-text them: "I'm driving, can't talk". Everyone else goes straight to voicemail. If they send me a text within 5 minutes of that call (must be serious), make the font huge so I can read it in .5 seconds on my console. Hide all other texts. I'd like to be truly responsible and just turn my phone off, but I don't to allow for those few times when there actually is something important.
- randomdata 15y agoSiri is already the "Driving Mode" feature on the iPhone. Hooking it up to the stereo system makes it feel like it is part of the vehicle. Some day, when I am feeling adventurous, I will wire the otherwise useless OnStar button to trigger it to complete the "factory look."
- sandGorgon 15y agoHTC Sense has something called modes - which allow you to put your phone in profiles that switch data off, or the keyboard off, etc. They recently acquired Inquisitive Minds for a "kids mode" (http://www.androidguys.com/2011/10/18/htc-acquires-inquisitive-minds-developer-of-zoodles/ http://www.androidguys.com/2011/10/18/htc-acquires-inquisiti...) which is pretty much guest mode.
- bockris 15y agoAnd this is why me and my family get way more use out of a Chromebook rather than our Android tablet. Please make Android grow multi-user capabilities or give me ChromeOS in a tablet format.
- industrialwaste 15y agoThe MIUI rom for Android sort of does this. It has a privacy mode which hides calls and text messages and locks down the homescreen.
- unabridged 15y agoi love that almost everything in this thread would be added shortly if we had control of our phones. why isnt there a bigger open hardware phone movement? how about a new GPLv4? GPLed software can only be shipped on GPLed hardware. it can be installed later but the user gets to see an ad explaining what they cannot do with their phone, and possibly alternate carriers that support open hardware.
- Helianthus 15y agoHell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
- jaylevitt 15y agoWhat kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
- Helianthus 15y agoYeah, but then I have to have a "guest" log-in. My computers are always on, so people never feel bad about asking to use them, and I feel it's unnecessary and unsmooth to log out. Since I've already been perfectly demanding|whining about a feature I'd like to have, what I _really_ want is to just click a program that boots up a vm with the same OS, but only the browser ready to go with a fresh lack of cookies, history, etc. IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK? </overdramatic>
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoHow about using Opera kiosk mode - it appears to meet your requested features. Also FastUserSwitching doesnt require logout IIRC.
- andrewaylett 15y agoUbuntu already has a "proper" guest mode, only accessible when unlocked by a regular user, wiped clear each time and only providing access to the guest sandbox. It's available from the system menu, so two clicks to activate when logged in already, or a couple of clicks and a password if the machine is locked (and in that case you don't have to go through your regular desktop to get to it).
- AndrewDucker 15y agowhy would you log out? In Windows you'd hit Windows-L, which would take you to the login screen, and then they'd click "Guest" (or whatever alternate login you've set up). You'd still be logged in, and when they were done (or were giving it back to you for five minutes) you press Windows-L again and choose your own login to switch back to your still-running programs. I'd be astounding if Linux didn't have an equivalent.
- sherwin 15y agoThis is something I've wondered quite a bit also. ChromeOS already has this feature -- it's the idea of the device simply acting as a terminal, with all user data stored in the cloud. Also, I'm a bit afraid implementing full-featured multiple user sessions (similar to a desktop OS) would lead to a lot more bloat.
- badclient 15y agoYes, yes from a guy who has to nervously hope that as his Dad looks up something on his phone while having family dinner, he doesn't end up in my SMS or Photos app. It'd ruin the dinner. And some.
- conradev 15y agoI was going to write a tweak for iOS to do something like this, with behavior similar to that of the built in Camera shortcut from the lockscreen. 1. You are using an app 2. You activate 'Guest mode' using a button press, swipe, tap, etc. (configurable) 3. If the user hits the home button, it redirects to the lockscreen instead of the homescreen (much like the Camera application does in lock-mode) 4. Instead of the camera icon on the lockscreen when you double tap, it is the icon of the locked-in application. (You can tap it to resume use of the locked-in application) 5. To disable this guest mode, you simply unlock the device with your passcode. So, when a friend asks "Hey can I check my email?", you can open Safari, enable this guest mode, and hand the phone to him, no worries. What do you think?
- adavies42 15y ago> So, when a friend asks "Hey can I check my email?", you can open Safari, enable this guest mode, and hand the phone to him, no worries. can you provide a sandboxed environment? he can't have access to any of my persistent Safari data (autofill/bookmarks/history/cookies/dbs/etc.), and any he creates should be wiped, probably on return to the lockscreen. all other forms of app switching (e.g. open a pdf url, then "open in" iBooks/goodReader/whatever) will need to be blocked as well. will also have to block the app tray, the notification center, pop-up/banner notifications, Siri, and possibly the phone. (could experiment with blocking badges and alerts but not sounds, since that only reveals the fact that an email/text/etc. was received, not any specific information about it.) might conceivably need to block all background app network traffic, tho i'm not sure if that's snoopable from inside safari. basically os x guest mode
- tzury 15y agoIronically, Arrington still "writes" for Techcrunch https://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/27763718700 https://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/27763718700
- nl 15y agoVMWare has virtualization working on Android, which supports this in a heavy-weight kind of way. See http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/vmware-android-handset-virtualization-hands-on/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/vmware-android-handset-vi... and http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/samsung-boosts-vmware-plan-to-virtualize-android-phones-tablets.ars http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/samsung-boosts-... The use-case for it usually suggested is one VM for work, one for personal use, but it could be used for this scenario too.
- aen1 15y agoFor the guy with friends that he doesn't trust. Actually, for the guy who thinks he has friends.
- buster 15y agoUsers can, when choosing the right ROM.. hooray for choice! Guest mode: enable the “Guest Mode” toggle in the panel, and your calls and text messages logs will be hidden, and all installed applications cannot be removed. You may have a try when you need to show your phone to guests or children. http://en.miui.com/a-10.html http://en.miui.com/a-10.html
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- pinaceae 15y ago...and this is why developers should never be in charge of usability/design. simplification enhances usability. the vast majority of smartphone and tablet users are happy that all that complicated IT/nerd stuff went away on their devices. the complications you would introduce by user switching are big. you need to add UI elements to tell the user at all times in which mode they are, you need new dialogs to switch, etc etc. the android status bar already looks like a badly maintained win xp install with all that crap in it. built by developers for developers. brrr.
- gulbrandr 15y agoOn Android there is an app called "Hide it Pro" [1] (aka Audio Manager) that allows you to hide pictures and videos. The app disguises itself as an audio manager in the app drawer. To access the hidden files you have to type a PIN code. There is also an escape PIN if you get caught hiding files. Clever idea. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpro https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpr...
- ravivyas 15y agoThe idea sounds awesome... but how many on us even have the guest account enabled on our laptops?
- beagle3 15y agoWeb browsers have been around since 92, first usable guest mode [1] on a web browser appeared 2005 or so. Give the phones a little more time, and it will get there too. [1] mozilla had multiple profile support since forever, but it required you to restart the browser with a command line argument, or requires you to pick a profile every time, and even then it's not "guest" profile -- it's another profile with history and all. When I needed multiple profiles, it was always easier to set up another user on Linux. [On windows, at least in the 2000 days, the new browser would defer to the old one that was already on screen even if they were RunAs different users -- a different "desktop session" was required for separation. bleh]
- jiggy2011 15y agoSmartphones seem to have mostly sacrificed some of their security for convenience. Take Windows for example, sure you can setup multiple user accounts with different levels of privilege , access to website and apps etc but how many people outside of a corporate or academic setting actually use this? Whenever I borrow someones laptop they just use their own login, sometimes I find porn in their Internet history but at the end of the day who cares? Perhaps this is more of a problem for people with kids who might want to use the internet themselves but when their child uses it they don't want them to have access to certain sites or see that their parent has accessed certain sites. One issue I have with android is that when I clear the history in the browser and delete all cookie etc etc. If I hit the back button it still goes back to whatever I visited last , also if I goto google and tap the search bar all my previous searches come up. It's not really very privacy friendly. Hopefully this problem will pass once everyone has a smartphone so they don't need to borrow someone elses.
- AndrewDucker 15y agoMy girlfriend and I both have logins on each other's laptops, so that we can both have our apps set up the way we like them. With bookmarks and history syncing between them, this makes life much easier.
- jiggy2011 15y agoIt does, I have multiple logins for my PC including a guest one. Most people don't seem to really understand the benefit of doing this though, I've seen couples argue because they both keep changing preferences on a shared computer when multiple logins would solve their problems.
- jxi 15y agoIt doesn't work for Windows because you wouldn't have an account on someone else's computer. Chrome OS solves this though since your account is in the cloud and you can login to your account with your settings/history/etc.. from any computer. Android should be able to support this feature down the line too.
- dutchbrit 15y agoI've been thinking about this a lot recently. Guest account too, but mainly other user accounts. Not for phones but for tablets, these tend to get shared more - there's a way to have multiple user accounts on iPad but this requires jailbreaking, something I'm not too fond of. It'd be nice that each family member can use their own instances of mail and safari etc...
- fierarul 15y agohttp://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/10/07/Robot-Road#p-1 http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/10/07/Robot-Road... Quote: Which has revealed a feature that the Tab needs: a button in Gmail called “in strange hands”. The device is profoundly shareable, but mine has my Google email, full of threads that are distinctly not for public eyes. So I need to switch to disable that while letting people look at interesting web sites or play games or check stock prices or whatever. End Quote
- AndrewWarner 15y agoMy Mac has a guest mode, but I never use it. Do you?
- ghurlman 15y agoEvery time I have guests at the house that want to use the computer for some reason. That's what it's for -- why not use it?
- dutchrapley 15y agoTo answer your question, no. But my Mac does have more than one user account. It would be nice if iOS would support multiple user accounts/profiles, especially for games - so when a user is "logged in" a game's saved progress would be tailored for that specific user.
- Gustomaximus 15y agoI would take this one step further and have smartphones/tablets with cloud based "login" for your accounts, apps, preferences etc. While you would probably only use it a few times a year it would be great when getting a new phone, swapping phones with friends to try them out or to borrow a phone if you are out of juice.
- hsshah 15y agoSeems like Apple is planning to implement multi-user mode in iOS with face recognition based login ie a user just enter his PIN, however, the camera detects which account to load. (IMHO, more secure than the current Android implementation) Article talking about related patent: http://www.cultofmac.com/137393/apple-patent-details-facial-recognition-plans-for-macs-ios-devices/ http://www.cultofmac.com/137393/apple-patent-details-facial-... I would imagine at that time, they might support Guest logins. EDIT: the implementation detail of Face recognition talked above is my own take on how it should be done. Not suggested by the referenced article.
- Too 15y agoWhy don't computers have a "party mode"? (locking everything but youtube and spotify).
- jimenaescolulle 15y agoGuest Mode has already been requested by many people: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7472 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7472