Hi!
Is there a reliable way to remove the option for multiple users from the settings?
Would be important for parental control for the phones of my kids…
Thanks for any end-user doable (adb commands would be fine) suggestions!
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No, there’s no option
I understand there is a way to modify the build.prop file to do it, but I didnt manage to do so successfully yet.
Has anybody experience with that?
Having the option would be really cool feature for parental control!
Any chances Iode might enable this option (to remove multiple users) in the future?
How could one support that?
Again I want to emphasize the importance of the possibility to remove the option for multiple users in from the settings (or block it somehow).
Without that parental control can always be cheated…
Please find a way for this, that would make Iode even easier to recommend!
Thanks for all the efforts in this project so far, i really like to use it!
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Maybe this can help?
Long Press on Startscreen,
Hidden and protected apps:
Find “Settings”, set a PIn?
Thanks Volker. Unfortunately then all the settings are not accessible, it would be great to just block the multiple user option…
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what then happens to users who use this feature or want to use it?
For sure that should be optional, sorry if that wasnt clear.
So it “just” would be about blocking the option somehow.
Or if there waa a way to just pin-lock this part of the settings it would be great!
I’ve tried to look at this in the past as well, I don’t think Android’s multi-user feature is meant to do what we want it to do (e.g. have a more “standard / limited user account” and a separate “administrator account”). So the multi-user implementation means you just have more than 1 “all powerful user”. Not too useful in my opinion 
For limiting an account beyond this design I think you will need to look at 3rd party solutions, many of which, as you note, are not privacy respecting 
Do any others have better solutions?
Seems to be a recurring theme I am finding with Android, unfortunately; it does enough to ‘claim’ it has a certain function, but then has little, weird or no functionality actually behind that function… unlike iOS. sigh. Expect to have reduced functionality when moving to a bespoke phone and OS, but some stuff is just the most basic functions you would think, and isn’t even in stock Android…?
