Smartphones need a button for "lock the screen but show what's currently on it and don't allow swiping through other things in my photo gallery or changing apps and don't dim the screen or show notifications or anything until I unlock it because I'm passing around a photo and some people have poor smartphone etiquette."
@vantablack Is that so?
@bgcarlisle Interaction Control, was a thing with Samsung phones :D
@vantablack Amazing. It's on my phone!
@vantablack @bgcarlisle pinned windows does this on my Samsung s7 https://tiny.tilde.website/media/5YP1sU4SIE5ZszdbmKI
@bgcarlisle What you're describing is a printout, and I'm not entirely opposed to this idea.
@bgcarlisle Yes to alllllllllllllllllllll of this.
@bgcarlisle you mean like the iOS Guided Access feature?
@kenrachynski See the rest of the convo!
@bgcarlisle oh hey. I don’t think the rest of the convo showed up when I replied. Missed a refresh, I guess.
It will be accessible via triple-click-Home and it’s very powerful. You can lock everything and make it view only or so very granular configuration like only allow touch access to specific areas of the screen.
@bgcarlisle It's called screen pinning, and they already do it.
Android: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ho-to-pin-apps-in-android-5-lollipop/
#screen-pinning
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The question has been answered several times!
@bgcarlisle there was a thing for this in the Android 4.2 settings, but I forget what it was