Share Your Phone, Not Password!

How many of you have experienced your kids mis-typed your pin on your phone three times and had it wiped clean by your company's MDM software? Let your kids play games on your tablet but they ended up doing more on it? Reset your phone before lending it to a friend? And for mobile developers, you need phone for personal use, work software, and testing, but don't want to carry three phones?

Android is multi-user operating system built on top of linux! You can create separate users on your phone and tablet, each will have their own space on the device for custom home screen, accounts, apps, settings and more. For example, you can create a user for kids with just games, no pin, no phone call or texting capability; a user for work software only, no personal information or apps installed; lend your phone to a friend or test software as guest user with a clean space each time.

You can switch users by two finger swipe down from top of your phone to reach quick settings, click the user icon on the top right, and select the user you want to switch to, or create a new user, as in below screenshots:

 You can also manage users via Settings > Users: 

Multi-user feature requires Android 5+ on phone and Android 4+ on tablet. You can find more info at https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2865944. 

Hope this is helpful tip!