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One of the things I am hoping for with this change is an easy way for me to log on to any computer I have 'synchronised' (such as my home laptop, desktop, or pe

One of the things I am hoping for with this change is an easy way for me to log on to any computer I have 'synchronised' (such as my home laptop, desktop, or perhaps the wife's laptop if it has network access to home) and have the same home operating environment. Will it work? Will the small tradeoffs be worth it? (Like remotely logging in via ssh to a locked desktop machine somewhere...) ... I guess I'm thinking the Chromebook style experience, but without the google involvement. Separately - I've often wondered if iPhones couldn't be a bit more user agnostic in this way, perhaps among a family. Couldn't a son pick up his mother's iphone, log on with is Apple ID from the lock screen (assuming she has enabled 'family share') and have access to his messages, accounts, contacts, etc, but not large media? I can't see Android getting there sooner, but this would be a very useful feature I think.

divbzero 7y ago
I too would love to see this for the iPhone and even more so for the iPad. Apple implemented multiuser successfully for Apple TV with tvOS 13 [1] and HomePod with iOS 13.2 [2] but probably has less incentive to implement it for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207936 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207936 [2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208714 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208714
viraptor 7y ago
> I can't see Android getting there sooner Why? iPhones still don't support multiple users natively as far as I can tell. Android has this by default since... 7? 8? Once you have everything set to sync to google services, it's really close to having this behaviour.
- jasonvorhe 7y ago
  Multi user support came with Android Lollipop in 2014.