The protection and/or hiding of apps (under Home Settings) becomes useless because one can easily navigate to the settings through the Status Bar (swiping all the way down to the bottom, beside the user icon).
Once Settings is opened, one just have to: Apps → All Apps → (select any app) → App Info → Open
Can this be resolved? For example, requiring authentication every time Settings is accessed?
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