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Forgot lock screen PIN on child phone with Family Link, can't figure out how to get into it ...
My child forgot her lock screen PIN and I use Family Link, but I can't figure out how to get into it or reset the PIN through the app.
What are my options? …
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Limit Access to Safe Mode, Android 8.0+ [closed]
Here are ideas I've thought of:
Custom lock screen that sends the parent pin to the OS when the child pin is entered. … When rebooted in safe mode, lock screen wouldn't start and the child wouldn't know the parent pin.
Some kind of app that sends an sms to the parent phone when the child phone reboots. …
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Child-proofing an Android phone?
When "locked down", the only thing a child must be able to do would be to call one of several pre-defined phone #s. … This does NOT need to be genius-child-proof. E.g. if the way to unlock it is to reboot and launch Recovery mode, that's safe enough for me. …
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How do I play videos in a loop in the Samsung stock player?
Try IVideo Player , compatible for Android 3.0+, looping, child lock, brightness control, plays mov, flv, rmvb, mpg, mpeg and etc. …
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How to prevent child from calling friends?
Even when the phone is locked to the maximum extent (bedtime on Google Family Link / Huawei parental controls), the child able to call friends. This is not what I want, especially during nights. …
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Parental lock: use parental lock app on my profile, or use restricted profile, or use full a...
option 2: use restricted profile for each child
Pros:
Simple; no parental-lock app required.
Separate app data (game progress) for each profile.
Cons:
Restricted profiles are not good enough! … option 3: use full profile for each child + parental lock app
Pros:
The parental-lock app linked above is really sensible!
Separate app data (game progress). …
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Block audio and video playback in the browser in the background
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On the phone (android, xiaomi) of the child, "Google Family Link" is installed with a time limit for using applications (when the screen is on). … But the child turns on an audiobook or video and turns on the screen lock - the media plays in the background and the time of using the phone does not increase. …
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Is there a way to disable touch temporarily?
This situation is like children lock, in which, all buttons fail to react, temporarily, to disable any kind of interaction by a child.
Is there a way to achieve this in Android? … Do we have something like lock screen? …
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Call custom emergency number from lockscreen
Ok, basically, what I want, is to provide Android phone to child, locked by passcode (or gesture), and allow the child to call parents (two numbers) from locked device. … lockscreen, which would send out SMS to pre-defined numbers
this works, however it might be pricey, and I consider this the last resort option
this also does/might not resolve the emergency cases, child …
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Block Google Play installing certain applications
For a long time companies liked to stick with BlackBerry because they were easier to 'child lock'. … More and more, I am actually seeing people with IPhones now having this 'company child lock software'. …
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Android phone as security camera; needs to disable safe mode
(Also, useful for employee phones and child phones.) … I was able to use app locking programs to lock down my phone, but was unable to use it in safe mode, which is stupidly easy for anyone to figure out how to boot into, even for a child. …
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Is there is a way to exempt apps (e.g. termux) from Doze in Android 14?
It appears that Doze is the underlying issue; it stops termux, which stops the sshd child process, so the tunnel goes away, and it doesn't come back, despite my having scheduled (in termux-land) a check-and-restore … It does not help to turn off battery optimizations or to enable wake-lock.
Is there is a way to exempt termux (for example) from Doze in Android 14 without rooting the phone? …
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Unlock Samsung pattern lock using Family Link
How do I unlock my son's Samsung Galaxy S20 pattern lock using Family Link?
I tried the hard reset option but couldn't get to factory reset. …
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How unlock S6 Edge When The Finger Print Scanner is Not Working?
It was working fine, but today while I was on bath my child was playing with my mobile and by mistake they tried finger print scanner, now my device is locked out. … 2. or is there a way to on my WiFi or mobile data on lock screen?
Because I don't want to reset my device, as I have unsaved data.
Thanks in advance
Best regards …
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Why can't I switch accounts after rebooting?
From the lock screen, I can access the switch user functionality, but the other users are greyed/disabled and nothing happens when I touch them. … I found this other question but it seems to be the opposite of my problem - in that case, they cannot use the child accounts until they log in with the admin account. …