How to Enable Screen Pinning
Screen pinning is a feature of android mobiles that many people don't know. It is really useful when you give your phone to someone else for showing them contents of a app but you worry that they will open some other app and therefore hinder your privacy. Also it can be used by parents while giving mobile to their children for study purposes, so that any other app cannot be opened. Android developers made a escape to this situation by giving out the screen pinning feature. By enabling this feature you can pin a particular app and till the app is pinned all the other functions(except incoming call and emergency outgoing) of the mobile will be locked. This feaature comes in all android devices running on Android 5.0 or above. The included screenshots are of Android 9 pie.
We'll guide you to do it in just simple steps.
1)For Samsung, Motorola, Stock Android Devices:
It is really easy to enable screen pinning in these devices. just follow the below given steps:
- Go to: Settings→Security→Other security settings→Pin window.
Now enable the setting and read the instructions(may differ on different mobiles) on how to unpin an pinned app. To pin an app, go to recents and you'll find a pin icon on the first app, click on that pin icon to pin the app.
2)For Android Devices running on MIUI:
In MIUI the screen pinning feature is not available in the settings but since every android has this feature, Mi devices must also have it. This trick works for MIUI 11 also and the preceding versions as well. To enable screen pinning in Mi devices follow the steps given below:
- Download the SetEdit(Settings Database Editor) app by 4A and open it. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=by4a.setedit22
- Tap on +Add new setting.
- There write: lock_to_app_enabled . Write exactly like this and tap on save changes.
- Now it will ask for input value set it to: 1 and again tap on save changes.
- Now you can pin your apps from recents.
You can pin the apps by clicking on the pin icon, and unpin by pressing the home button and power button simultaneously.
If you, for some reason, dislike the feature and want to turn it off you can repeat the same above steps but in fourth step set the value to be 0.
Important:
- This feature will not work if you're using full screen mode. You must have the recents and the home button to use this feature.
- Please perform these steps carefully and don't mess up with other settings of the mobile. The team of God-Trickz will not be responsible if you write anything wrong in the database editor and it messes up your other settings. This message is not to scare you but a reminder to use the database editor carefully.
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