It currently takes me 5 clicks to change users (settings > system > multiple users > click the other user > click "Switch to (the other user name)".
Is there a shortcut I can put on the desktop to cut the clicks down to 1 or 2?
It currently takes me 5 clicks to change users (settings > system > multiple users > click the other user > click "Switch to (the other user name)".
Is there a shortcut I can put on the desktop to cut the clicks down to 1 or 2?
Swipe down menubar 2x >bottom next to settings is current user > choose the user
Hope this helps.
+1 for a shortcut feature! To encourage users to use multiple user profiles this needs to be more convenient.
Suggestions:
A widget that directly opens the user selection I get when I swipe down twice and click once. (1 click vs. 2 swipes + click). This would be a user switch with 2 clicks.
Or a widget where you can configure directly switch to user x.
This would be a user switch with 1 clicks.
Pro tip: if you swipe down with two fingers on the top bar instead of one, you can skip the second swipe.
[deleted] I actually didn't know that; that's cool!
matchboxbananasynergy Unrelated but also fun fact: if you wanna collapse a previously opened (swiped down) notification without the arrow icon, you can use two finger swipe on it. This is a legacy feature i assume since there isnt haptic feedback when expanding a notificaion this same way.
Great! Swiped down tens of thousands of times without knowing this hack. Thanks for the tip!
The way I managed to make it faster is by creating a shortcut to the "Select user" activity using "Activity launcher" app. I made a shortcut on the desktop, that once pressed immediately opens a list of users. When the user is selected, I still have to extra-tap the "Switch to user" button. This was a tad faster than double swiping from top, pressing the "switch user" icon and picking a username.
What's most annoying currently is that fingerprint stops working for switched profiles, but that's unrelated to the question. Just to express disappointment. This problem hasn't been fixed for like half a year.
dln949
Once you've launched it, type "Settings" in search box, open the settings group and then search for the "users" and create a shortcut for this activity which shows up as "Settings$UserSettingsActivity" (lately I've been using "Activity Manager" app (from f-droid) instead of Activity Launcher)