If you have
multiple user accounts on your computer, you might find it annoying to have to click on the icon for your username each time you start up the computer.
Android has let us
create multiple user accounts for a while now, as long as you were doing so on a tablet; it wasn't until Lollipop that we could do this on a smartphone.
Netflix seemingly encourages potential customers to share passwords by
offering multiple user accounts under a single subscription, but it may be alone among streaming services with such leniency.
While Samsung hasn't officially released a changelog for the incoming update, SamMobile seems to suggest that among other changes, the update will bring multi-user mode to the device, which
means multiple user accounts can be created on the tablet post-update, thereby allowing more than one person to use the device without any privacy breach.
It's elegant and good - looking, and the latest features include some very useful extras
like multiple user accounts so different family members have different - looking versions on the same phone with separate home screens and all.
Since the update takes the device from Android 4.4.4 to Android 5.1, it includes Lock Screen notifications, Material Design, the new Recent Apps page, the Quick Settings flashlight, enhancements to Quick Settings, the ability to
open multiple user accounts, screen pinning, Battery Saving Mode, 64 - bit ART compiler that opens apps faster, and the Smart Lock that allows a trusted device to unlock your handset.
iOS still doesn't
provide multiple user accounts, but these features go a long way to letting you control what your kids can do on an iPad, whether the iPad is primarily yours or primarily theirs.
Better probabilty of Real Quality Accounts: Less chance
of multiple user accounts, and accounts banned from Facebook get automatically banned here.
Owners of the Galaxy Tab S2 can now
create multiple user accounts and share the tablet with their family members or friends without exposing their private data.
A recent and welcome update to the Google Home system allows it to work
with multiple user accounts, which makes it much better for families or homes where more than one person accesses it.
There is now support
for multiple user accounts on tablets, native settings shortcuts in the notifications pane, gesture typing (ala Swype), wireless screen streaming via Wi - Fi Direct (over the Miracast protocol), widgets on the lockscreen, support for USB audio docks, redesigned camera app with HDR mode, Photo Sphere capturing and a built - in editor with filters, as well as further stability improvement.
Just like a computer, you can also set up
multiple user accounts so that you can ensure the safety of your kids and even run Microsoft Office apps.
The jump from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean would not see that much a paradigm shift compared to Ice Cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean, although do expect to see its fair share of improvements such as support for
multiple user accounts on the same tablet, better text prediction, and of course, the gesture - based typing virtual keyboard.
This is a bit of a bummer for families or people with roommates, since there's no way to set up
multiple user accounts or tailor the music choices to each individual's Apple Music account.
She seemed to be trying to offset every good review I got with a bad one of her own, setting up
multiple user accounts to do this.
For Android, you can set up
multiple user accounts so that your child has his own account, and only accesses apps you install.
Last month,
multiple user accounts were shown off in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and while isn't likely to come to previous versions of Android (specifically Ice Cream Sandwich), it'll come to future versions.
Especially with tablets and families, several people can share the same device so having
multiple user accounts is a nice value add.
Multiple user accounts are hidden in Jelly Bean, but isn't fully working yet.
And in continuing with that evolution, it appears that Android will soon have
multiple user accounts.