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3 Tips for Sharing a Tablet with Multiple People

Having a single tablet for your entire family makes a certain amount of financial sense for many families. But what if you’re not thrilled with your better half’s taste of wallpaper? And what happens when you’re little ones start deleting your email? Luckily, there are some handy Android tips that lets you set up your own private space on a shared tablet—a space with your own apps, your own email, and yes, your own wallpaper.

1. Set up multiple accounts

This feature allows you to have your own profile, ID, apps everything. You can manage your files and personalize your space. May be you are not interested in apps installed by other users.

How to use

Go to Settings> Tap on Users. Here you can set up a general guest account and add separate account for each user.

Now, every user have liberty to install apps of their choice but at the same time main user or master user the authority to uninstall any apps installed. Since, there is a separate space for any user and apps being used by other user cannot be seen by others but there is an option to share apps with administrator and make them visible to all.

2. Set up parental control

If you frequently find your Android phone or tablet in the hands of your children, you may want to consider protecting it with parental control software. Find out how to set this up in our helpful guide.

If you have an Android phone or tablet running Android 4.2 or above, your device has the ability to quickly switch between a numbers of different user accounts. This means you can set up one’s user account for yourself and another, safer one for your children to use.

You can then restrict a user account to block access to apps, games and features which might be inappropriate for your children. Let’s find out how to create a second user account and exercise parental control over the way it works. No app can be downloaded in a restricted account and user has access to apps only allowed by the administrator. Now you can share your tablet with your without letting them to access to open your stuff.

3. Setting Rules

Due to its big screen tablets consume more power even after having a bigger battery. Now, the question is who going to charge it? That need to be decided, otherwise you may never get your tablet fully charged.

Hence, it’s better to decide a place for your tablet where it will be closed when not in use and strictly follow it. Prefer a place where it can charge so that everyone will connect it to charger. Basically it is not a technical trick but a habit to maintain power level of your tablet.

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