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> One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police FWIW Android has a (somewhat hidden) "pi

by jlebar 7y ago

> One potential issue with having this on your phone is that you are unlocking your phone and handing it to the police FWIW Android has a (somewhat hidden) "pin app" function that prevents users from switching to a different app without entering the lock code.

shirro 7y ago
Thanks. Just turned it on and learned how to use it. A few too many steps to the UI. I think I would prefer if an app like this was pinned from the moment it was opened.
austhrow743 7y ago
Same with iphone. Accessibility settings -> Guided access. Can turn on a setting so that when you triple click the home button it locks use to that app until you unlock.
- w-ll 7y ago
  Thank you for teaching me something today. Had no clue about this feature and it looks pretty interesting. That being said... while testing it I was able to escape to the Messages app by clicking a share btn in an app, or long pressing a link in a webkit ui object to share the link. From the Messages i was able to get to contacts and see contact info. If you create a 'new message' with an existing contact it will actually load all the previous messages for that contact. I assume it would also load group messages for a group as this behavior is present in normal messages mode. At first i didn't think images where loading, but if I scrolled up till it had to load in older messages it shows images Same for other apps that register in the share functionality. I was also able to go to the 'more' and enable other apps like Slack and One Note and was able to gather a lot of details from the dialogs they provide. Messages seams to have the most 'out of bounds' gonna play with this some more. I wanna also say I have a kinda older iPhone, running 12.1.4 in case some of this has been improved.
  - austhrow743 7y ago
    Still happens on 13.2.2. Looks like they should disable the share sheet in it.
    - simonh 7y ago
      Or require your PIN to access the share sheet in this scenario.

by jlebar 7y ago

shirro 7y ago

Thanks. Just turned it on and learned how to use it. A few too many steps to the UI. I think I would prefer if an app like this was pinned from the moment it was opened.

austhrow743 7y ago

Same with iphone. Accessibility settings -> Guided access. Can turn on a setting so that when you triple click the home button it locks use to that app until you unlock.

w-ll 7y ago
Thank you for teaching me something today. Had no clue about this feature and it looks pretty interesting. That being said... while testing it I was able to escape to the Messages app by clicking a share btn in an app, or long pressing a link in a webkit ui object to share the link. From the Messages i was able to get to contacts and see contact info. If you create a 'new message' with an existing contact it will actually load all the previous messages for that contact. I assume it would also load group messages for a group as this behavior is present in normal messages mode. At first i didn't think images where loading, but if I scrolled up till it had to load in older messages it shows images Same for other apps that register in the share functionality. I was also able to go to the 'more' and enable other apps like Slack and One Note and was able to gather a lot of details from the dialogs they provide. Messages seams to have the most 'out of bounds' gonna play with this some more. I wanna also say I have a kinda older iPhone, running 12.1.4 in case some of this has been improved.
- austhrow743 7y ago
  Still happens on 13.2.2. Looks like they should disable the share sheet in it.
  - simonh 7y ago
    Or require your PIN to access the share sheet in this scenario.