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2PIN to unlock different UI. Is there app?

ders_a

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Hello. Is there any application that can allow to create a hidden User Interface on android Phones. Idea simple. You meet with gang and they ask to show your phone. You do not like them to see any mobile bank application, some mobile wallet app, you do not like them to see that you have email installed. So you use PIN2 to unlock phone and they see in general almost empty Android.

But if you use some special pin, then you can use all apps.

Thanks

p.s. I was asking in other forum and guys said it is simple. but I do not see any app till now that offer that functionality. Maybe Nova Launcher, but that is a bit different
 
You could use a launcher like Nova to hide apps from the app drawer. Or there are various app locking apps that can require a pin to open sensitive apps (so your friends can see the app exists but can't access it). Neither of these is exactly what you ask for, but either might do.

Or you could activate the guest user account and switch to that before unlocking the phone and giving it to them. That's a matter of tapping an icon and selecting rather than entering a different pin (but can be done, at least on my phone, from the lockscreen if the guest account has been activated), but otherwise the effect is as you describe. It is of course easy for someone to switch to your account, but if they do that they will be locked out unless they know your pin.
 
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