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How to use screen pinning in Android Lollipop?

Screen pinning in Android Lollipop allows you to lock your phone to a specific app

Android lollipop featuresThis Android guide explains everything you need to know about screen pinning: what’s it? why you may need it? how to enable/disable it? how to use it? how to unpin the screen? and caveats/implications of pinning the app.

Table of Contents hide
1) What is screen pinning in Android Lollipop?
2) When you may need to pin an app?
3) How to enable screen pinning in Android Lollipop?
3.1) Step 1: Go to Settings–Security
3.2) Step 2: Tap screen pinning
3.3) Step 3: Drag the switch from left to right
3.4) Step 4: Screen pinning is now on.
4) How to use screen pinning in Android Lollipop?
4.1) Step 1: Start the app you want to pin
4.2) Step 2: Tap Overview button
4.3) Step 3: Tap the pin icon on the app
4.4) Step 4: Set whether you want to use the lock screen password to protect unpinning
4.5) Step 5: Use the pinned app
5) How to exit screen pinning in Android Lollipop?
5.1) Method 1: Tap and hold the overview button.
5.2) Method 2: Tap overview and back buttons simultaneously.
6) You cannot receive calls or notifications when screen pinning in Android Lollipop is in use
7) Can you use screen pinning in Android Lollipop now?

What is screen pinning in Android Lollipop?

Screen pinning allows you to pin (lock) the screen to a certain app. This is one of the useful new features in Android Lollipop.

So, this feature is available in all later Android versions: Android Marshmallow (Android 6), Android Nougat (Android 7), Android Oreo (Android 8), Android Pie (Android 9), and Android 10.

In short, screen pinning in Android Lollipop let you enable your Android Lollipop device to only show a specific app’s screen. The device is temporally locked in this specific app, and you cannot access any other apps.

Screen pinning is different from kids mode in Samsung devices. Kids mode is more comparable to the guest mode in Android Lollipop.

When you may need to pin an app?

Screen pinning in Android Lollipop has been anticipated for a long time. At least, some Android users have expected some features similar to this.

In the following scenarios, you will find this pinning feature is extremely useful:

  • When playing games, you may accidentally tap the home button or back button. This may kill some games, at least it can be very annoying.
  • When your colleague wants to borrow your phone for an emergent call, you may not know whether he/she browses your private photos or other files or emails.
  • When your little kids want to play a game on your phone, you may be nervous because he/she may open some apps accidentally and may even delete some of your files inadvertently.

Whenever you want to lock your phone screen to a specific app so that the person can ONLY use this specific app, screen pinning in will be your new handy tool.

How to enable screen pinning in Android Lollipop?

By default, screen pinning is not enabled in Android Lollipop. At least, this is the case for Google Nexus (Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7 and Nexus 9) devices and Motorola Moto devices (Moto X including Moto X 2nd Gen, Moto G including Moto G 2nd Gen, and Moto E).

You need to enable this feature in your Android Lollipop first. You need to enable this feature only once.  Of course, you can also disable this feature to unpin the app screen at any time.

To enable screen pinning in Android Lollipop, you may follow these steps.

Step 1: Go to Settings–Security

You can access your phone settings from All Apps–Settings, or from Quick Setting.

Tap Security in the Settings. You need to scroll down to Advanced section to find the screen pinning, as shown below.

In other Android versions or other Android OEM devices, the path to this feature may be slightly different.

Android security settingsscreen pinning in Android lollipop

Step 2: Tap screen pinning

Tap Screen pinning as shown above to proceed.

Step 3: Drag the switch from left to right

After tapping Screen pinning in the previous step, you will get the setting page for this feature.

The only setting is the switch as shown below. You can turn on or turn off this feature.  No other settings.

When it is off, you can drag the switch from left to right to turn on this feature.

If it is on (indicated by the light blue color), you can drag the switch from right to left to turn off screen pinning in Android Lollipop as shown below.

screen pinning off turn on screen pinning

Step 4: Screen pinning is now on.

After you drag the switch to the right side, you are ready to pin any apps.

How to use screen pinning in Android Lollipop?

To use screen pinning, you may follow these steps.

Step 1: Start the app you want to pin

You need to start the app which you want to pin to the screen.

You can use literally any apps on the phone.

Step 2: Tap Overview button

Once the app is started, you can tap the Overview button as shown below (red).

For most apps, if you want, you can tap the Home button (green), as shown below, to quickly exit the app.

start the app so that you can use it for screen pinning choose apps to pin

 Step 3:  Tap the pin icon on the app

Now, you are in the overview page as shown above. This page used to be called the Recents apps page, which lists the apps you used.

In Android Lollipop, Google renamed this button as Overview button and this page of course as the overview page.

For the last app in the list, you can find the pin icon as shown above. Tap the icon to pin this app to your phone screen.

For other apps, you can tap the title bar to navigate to that app, then tap the pin icon.

Step 4: Set whether you want to use the lock screen password to protect unpinning

Before the app is pinned to your Android device, Android Lollipop asks you to confirm whether you are going to use screen pinning.

You need tap Start as shown below to actually pin the app to the screen.

Depending on your lock screen security settings, you may have different options.

If you didn’t set lock screen security or set the security as swipe, you cannot enforce a password for unpinning.

If you set PIN, lock pattern or password for the lock screen, you can optionally enable “Ask for PIN before unpinning” as shown below before tapping Start.

The result is obvious.

If the PIN is not required, you can unpin the app and use the phone without restriction.  Otherwise, you will be directed to lock screen to provide the PIN or password if you want to unpin the app.

The PIN or password required is your lock screen PIN or password.  There is no separate PIN or password for unpinning in Android Lollipop.

screen pinning security settingsrequire password for unpinning

Step 5: Use the pinned app

After tapping Start in the previous step, the device is now locked to this app.

You should see the quick notification of “Screen pinned” as shown below.

When the screen pinning is working, if you try to tap Home, Back or Overview buttons, or try to swipe down to read notifications (which are always blocked anyway), you will get the notification on how to unpin the app as shown below (“To unpin this screen, touch and hold Overview“).

use screen pinning in Android Lollipopunpin the screen

How to exit screen pinning in Android Lollipop?

You have two ways to exit screen pinning in Android Lollipop.

Method 1: Tap and hold the overview button.

Method 2: Tap overview and back buttons simultaneously.

Both methods work in an identical way. If you request the password for unpinning when pinning the app, you will be directed to the lock screen to proceed.

You cannot receive calls or notifications when screen pinning in Android Lollipop is in use

For security reasons, when screen pinning in Android Lollipop is in use (i.e., an app is pinned to the screen), all notifications will be blocked so that the user cannot read your SMS or email or other app notifications. This is not a bug.

You should also remember that you cannot receive phone calls when screen pinning is in use. You even will not receive any missed calls notifications after unpinning the screen. The call history does not include any related records. I am not sure whether this is a bug.

Can you use screen pinning in Android Lollipop now?

If you have any questions on using screen pinning in Android Lollipop or other Android versions, please let us know them in the comment box below.

The community will help you.

For more Android Lollipop guides, please visit on Android Lollipop Guide page.

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Comments

  1. Alex says

    March 18, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    I upgrated to android 5.01 and dont have “screen pinning” in security-advanced-… is anybody have the same issue? I can’t find it.

    Reply
    • simon says

      March 19, 2015 at 5:13 am

      Is it a nexus or moto device?


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    • Ahmed says

      August 28, 2015 at 10:52 am

      Working perfectly on nexus 5 Android 6.0 preview 3 version. Good tutorial! Thanks

      Reply
  2. Alex says

    March 19, 2015 at 5:49 am

    Samsung Note 4

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    • simon says

      March 19, 2015 at 12:25 pm

      Are you in easy mode? It is similar to that in Galaxy S5: http://galaxys5guide.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-android-lollipop-update-guide/


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  3. Alex says

    March 19, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Standard.

    Reply
    • simon says

      March 19, 2015 at 11:48 pm

      Not sure. The screen pinning feature could be removed by Samsung in some regions for galaxy note 4. It’s a bit strange because it’s available in the Lollipop update for s5.


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  4. Alex says

    March 20, 2015 at 1:57 am

    Thanks, I’ll keep looking or will stop by sprint

    Reply
  5. Perma says

    April 22, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    Screen pinning does not seem to be available for the Samsung galaxy S4 5.0.2 It may be due to having a menu button rather then a recent button as on the newer devices.

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    • simon says

      April 23, 2015 at 12:15 am

      In addition to screen pinning, Samsung actually didn’t implement some other Android lollipop features as well, e.g, guest user, multiple users, priority mode and face lock.


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      • Billbucket says

        May 8, 2015 at 9:10 pm

        Face lock is on my Verizon Samsung S4 (you have to enable Smart Lock first). But I don’t see the other features.

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  6. vishal says

    July 3, 2015 at 7:17 am

    Can’t make calls even when the dialer pad is pinned and that’s a major flow

    Reply
  7. Michael says

    July 15, 2015 at 5:43 am

    LP 5.1, 1st Gen Moto X
    Can “screen pinning” be used in a diff user profile or guest mode? If how, what’s the trick?

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    • simon says

      July 15, 2015 at 1:30 pm

      Yes, you can use screen pinning under all users including guest mode.

      By default, screen pinning is not enabled. Each user need turn it on individually in settings.


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      • Michael says

        July 16, 2015 at 2:27 am

        It’s turned on per individual user. Still not working. Any other thoughts?

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        • simon says

          July 16, 2015 at 10:20 am

          Can the main user use this feature?


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  8. Michael says

    July 16, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Only the main user.

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    • simon says

      July 17, 2015 at 1:06 am

      Not sure. it could be due to vendor customization. I tested it on Nexus 6 and it works for all users.


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  9. Rohini says

    October 12, 2015 at 6:19 am

    I am having android 5.1 version.I cant find screen pinning in setting–>security–>Advanced?

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    • simon says

      October 12, 2015 at 10:06 am

      Some android manufacturers may disable the screen pinning feature.


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  10. skmnz says

    October 13, 2015 at 4:28 am

    Cant make the phone call on Note 4 after the Phone App has been pinned. It just does not make the call

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    • simon says

      October 13, 2015 at 5:04 am

      This is normal. When you enable screen pinning, it warns you phone calls and messages will not be available. Screen pinning is not for phone app or messages app.


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  11. Jeeva says

    December 24, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Good tutorial very helpfull

    Reply
  12. ishaq says

    January 24, 2016 at 1:23 am

    Hello everyone
    I’ve had screen pin on note 3 but it is not unpinnig now…I have tried menu key…
    Please help…

    Regards
    Maha

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    • simon says

      January 24, 2016 at 2:06 am

      For Note 3, to unpin an app, you need press and hold menu key (left to home button)) AND back key (right to home button).


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      • Michał Kłosowski says

        April 19, 2016 at 9:54 pm

        Doesn’t work, I don’t know why. It used to work but bow I have to restart my note 3. I’m sick and tired of that sh….t

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        • simon says

          April 19, 2016 at 11:53 pm

          You need enable it. Then tap and hold home button to see the button on recent apps.


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          • Hallgeir Gjesdal says

            September 22, 2016 at 5:44 pm

            Stumbled over a hot tip regarding not able to unpin issue.

            My device is Note 3 running stock 5.0 android

            Under “Accessibility —> Services… Shut off all running services
            Now you should be able to unpin again 🙂
            Its probably a bug..and will never be fixed.

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            • simon says

              September 23, 2016 at 12:47 am

              Thank you for sharing your solutions.


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  13. Mohamed Helal says

    February 27, 2016 at 9:47 am

    This option in note 3 (lollipop)
    Its easy to pin app but how to unpin
    Note3 #

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    • simon says

      February 27, 2016 at 1:01 pm

      For Samsung devices, to unpin, tap and hold home button.


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      • mlg_pushthatdiamond says

        January 20, 2017 at 6:22 am

        It’s not working. 🙁
        It still says To unpin application, press and hold the menu key.

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        • simon says

          January 20, 2017 at 10:29 am

          What’s the phone model? It should be recent key or recent key+ back key?


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  14. Emiliano says

    March 16, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    I am not able to test it right now (don’t have the tablet here) but I need to discard (and keep looking for a solution) or accept it as a possible solution.

    What happens if the user tries to unpin the app and he/she does not know the password/pattern? Does the tablet go back to the pinned app or it just keep on this screen?

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    • simon says

      March 17, 2016 at 5:57 am

      If you enable ask pin for unpinning, and if the user tries to unpin by holding overview (revert apps) button, it will send him to lock screen. He need unlock the screen to proceed.

      Back button will be limited to the app. It also depends on individual app. But the user cannot go to home screen without unpinning the app.


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    • Mike says

      August 30, 2016 at 3:46 pm

      On my phone (Android v6), it indicates there are 10 attempts available to input the correct PIN to remove the pinning. What happens if the 10 tries are unsuccessful? Is the phone locked at that screen? Can it be restarted to remove the pinning?

      Thanks in advance…

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      • simon says

        August 30, 2016 at 10:39 pm

        If you enable asking PIN when unpinning, then you need screen lock PIN. It’s actually asking you to unlock the lock screen.

        If you reboot the phone, you will still have to unlock the screen to use the phone. Lock screen is the first screen you will get after a reboot.


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        • Mike says

          August 30, 2016 at 11:21 pm

          Thanks for your reply simon. My main concern is the first question, so perhaps I should have asked just that: What happens if the 10 PIN entry tries to remove the screen pinning are unsuccessful?

          I’m concerned if I set this to use the android device in a “kiosk” mode with screen pinning, someone may attempt to unlock it 10 times and wish to understand what happens in that case.

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          • simon says

            August 31, 2016 at 12:33 am

            It is just lock screen.

            The result depends on the phone. In some phones, there is automatic factory data reset option. If it’s enabled, the phone will be erased automatically.

            You probably should not use your personal phone in this way.


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  15. Chris says

    June 7, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    Does screen pinning survive a restart of the device? If I put the device in single app mode will a restart re-enable the other apps?

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    • simon says

      June 8, 2016 at 12:45 am

      No, screen pinning is not a security feature. You should give your phone to others only when you are comfortable with it.


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  16. Devashish says

    March 6, 2017 at 7:20 am

    Not able to unpin the screen in micromax canvas juice 2 …

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    • simon says

      March 6, 2017 at 9:39 am

      What did you get when holding back button?


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  17. huzaifa khan says

    March 7, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    thank u very very much BRO

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  18. Akil Prasath says

    September 23, 2017 at 2:04 am

    How can I activate guest mode in my android marshmallow mobile? It is not available in my mobile…

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    • simon says

      September 23, 2017 at 11:23 am

      Some vendors disabled multi user feature. What’s the model of your phone? Can to follow this guide https://gadgetguideonline.com/android/lollipop/how-to-use-android-lollipop-guest-user-mode-and-multiple-users/ ?


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  19. Harold says

    October 16, 2017 at 8:32 am

    There is a screen pinning feature available on my phone but it’s grayed out and I cannot use it (also with “Clear credential storage”). Any suggestions? I’m using an Android 5.1 phone from a local brand here in the Philippines.

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    • simon says

      October 16, 2017 at 11:54 am

      Some higher level security settings may disable screen pinning and other security settings.

      For example, if you added an VPN account, or added an Exchange account (company email account), some security related settings will be disabled.

      Also, if the phone is configured by your IT department, some settings will also be disabled.


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  20. Sophie Adams says

    December 4, 2018 at 2:48 pm

    Hi,

    Is it possible to pin the screen without it being obvious how to unpin it… i.e. without the “To unpin this screen, touch and hold overview.” appearing??

    Thanks

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    • simon says

      December 5, 2018 at 1:44 am

      You can enable “Ask for pin before unpining” when enabling screen pinning


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