Unlike Apple’s Mac lineup, the company’s iOS devices don’t offer a native ‘guest mode.’ This is a crying shame for anyone who wants to share their device with someone else while keeping the peace of mind that the other person won’t be peering through any personal data.
Fortunately, jailbreakers have long had the option of installing guest mode-centricjailbreak tweaks, andLendMyPhone 3by iOS developersLuke MurisandGeometric Softwareoffers one of the slickest guest mode interfaces we’ve seen yet.
The name should sound familiar, and that’s because LendMyPhone 3 is an iOS 13-compatible remake of the popularLendMyPhone tweak that we showed you back in September. Just like the original, LendMyPhone 3 will let you prevent users from accessing certain features of iOS, such as:
Once installed, you’ll find a preference pane for LendMyPhone 3 in the Settings app where you can set the tweak up to your specific needs:
Here, you can:
When you begin adding a new guest account, you’ll be asked to enter pertinent information:
You’ll be configuring things like:
After you’ve created the account, you can designate specific rules for that guest user:
Options here include:
The plethora of options that LendMyPhone 3 comes with will enable any iOS device owner to have full-fledged control over what other users can access. It could be considered useful for both family members and complete strangers.
We particularly like that you can designate a custom passcode for the Guest User because you’ll essentially give that person their specific passcode and they’ll unlock your device with it thinking that it’s the same one you use. There’s no splash screen, so the user wouldn’t actually know that they were in guest mode unless you told them.
If you’re interested in adding this type of guest mode functionality to your iPhone or iPad, then you candownload LendMyPhone 3 from the Geometric Software repository for $3.99via your preferred package manager. The tweak supportsjailbrokeniOS 13 devices..
Is a guest mode function something that you would use regularly on your iPhone or iPad? Let us know by dropping a comment below.
