Lockable, Password Protected Apps for iOS and Android
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 5/2/2016 9:31:33 AM
Nothing is private when friends and family use your tablet.
Whenever you allow a friend or family member to use your iPad or Android tablet, you're giving them complete access to just about everything in your private life.
So when guests come over and you allow them to see your photos, or play some games, you are also allowing them to read your email, and even access things like your bank account apps. That's pretty scary.
While the tablet itself has a password option, once you unlock it, you are basically giving the person holding it the keys to everything. The only way to block people from accessing your private information that is to keep the entire tablet locked with a Passcode, so there is no way to allow people to use some of your apps, while blocking them from using others.
Taken one step further, what about families who share the same tablet? Obviously, everyone in the household will know the passcode to unlock it, which gives children in the household full access to a parent's email and other private accounts.
One simple solution is to have the ability to designate some apps as private, so they can have an additional passcode to unlock them. Once you designate an app as private, the app remains inaccessible, even if the person holding it knows the main passcode.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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