How to switch user profile based on password / lockscreen pattern?

[Sol33t303]

I just ran into an old thread here https://android.stackexchange.com/q...-profile-based-on-password-lockscreen-pattern and thought it would be a cool way to handle multiple users without having to select which user you want to use. Since that was posted years ago, do you think that would be possible to accomplish now?

 

[Droidriven]

I just ran into an old thread here https://android.stackexchange.com/q...-profile-based-on-password-lockscreen-pattern and thought it would be a cool way to handle multiple users without having to select which user you want to use. Since that was posted years ago, do you think that would be possible to accomplish now?

I'm sure you can set up multiple user profiles/accounts and restrict what each profile has access to, but the part about automatically switching profiles based on the pass/pin that is entered, isn't going to happen, that couldn't even be done when the thread that you linked was originally posted. I think you missed the part saying that it still requires manually selecting/switching profiles.

Your idea would be convenient but it introduces security/vulnerability risks that android is designed to be protected from.

The pass/pin on the lockscreen does not lock/unlock user accounts or profiles, it locks/unlocks the device itself, the only pass/pin that has anything to do with user accounts on the device is the password that is entered when the account is first set up on the device and isn't re-entered unless the account is signed-out then signed back in.

But, there is a slight chance that you can get something like this set up if your device is rooted, with a rooted device, you can try the Tasker app or a similar app that us designed to set-up automated features/actions. Maybe you can use it to setup an automated process that switches accounts/profiles when a certain pass/pin is entered at lockscreen.

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