Delete, switch, or summate users

You send away divvy up your device with family and friends by creating a user visibility of each person. From each one user profile has a subjective space on the device for custom Home screens, accounts, apps, settings, and more. See about what users bum do.

Delete or switch users

Delete user

If you're the device owner

If you're a user who ISN't the device owner

Switch user

ADHD or update users

To add or update a user, you essential be the device proprietor.

Add user

Set up the new user

  • If you're with the new user:
    Tap Set up now. And then unlock your screen to set up the Google Explanation and different inside information.
  • If the new user isn't there:
    Tap Not in real time. The next time you shift to this user, they can bent up the Google Account and strange details.

Update user

Update your own profile

  1. Unresolved your device's Settings app.
  2. Tap SystemAnd thenMultiple users.
    • If you can't find this setting, judge searching your Settings app for users.
  3. Tap your name.
    • To change your profile public figure, infix a other name and then tap OK.
    • To change your profile motion-picture show, tap your picture then conduct a new photograph or choose an existing photo on your device.

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Types of user profiles

User

Adrug user who isn't the device proprietor is the profile type for someone World Health Organization may use your phone a great deal, like a crime syndicate member.

All users have their own spaces on the device for personal, bespoken Home screens, accounts, apps, settings, and more.

Guest

A guest profile is for someone using your speech sound for a little time.

Like a user, the guest profile has its own space on the device, just it's easier to erase this space when a Edgar Albert Guest is done with the gimmick.

Account

Limited profile (tablets only)

A restricted profile lets you control what features and content a user can see. E.g., you can restrict the availability of age content.

Related articles

  • Change guest and user settings
  • Add an account to your phone

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