How To Lock Apps On Your Samsung Galaxy Phone
Keep your kid from ordering a five-pound bag of candy.
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Handing your phone to your kid for a few minutes of game time shouldn't mean they end up three menus deep in your banking apps, emails or texts. That's a common enough worry that plenty of Galaxy owners go searching for a simple way to lock their apps, much like iPhone users can do. Well, Samsung doesn't offer one.
On an iPhone, the fix is a quick long-pressand selecting Require Face ID. The app then won't open without a face or fingerprint scan. Samsung takes a different approach to this whole situation. Instead of a single toggle, Galaxy phones split the job between two tools: Secure Folder and app pinning. Neither one is a direct copy of Apple's version, but together they cover more ground. At the end of the day, the important part is that you'll...
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