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Share one tablet between everyone

Set a 4-digit PIN so you tap your photo instead of typing a password on the farm’s shared tablet.

  1. This is for a tablet or laptop the whole farm uses. On your own phone, keep using your password.
  2. Nothing to switch on first — your farm already has it. (An admin can turn it off at Settings → Farm → Shared device sign-in, and that makes every tablet forget everyone.)
  3. Each person does this once on that tablet: sign in with your password as usual.
  4. Open Security (Settings → Security) and find "This device".
  5. Choose a 4-digit PIN, type it again to be sure, and tap Remember me on this device.
  6. Pick something nobody watching you could guess — not 1234, not your birth year.
  7. When you finish, tap Hand the device back. The tablet shows everyone’s photos again.
  8. It does that on its own too, after a few minutes with nobody using it.
  9. Next time, tap your photo and type your PIN. You are back where you were.
  10. Your PIN stays on that tablet and is never sent to Famu, so nobody — including us — can look it up or reset it. Forgotten it? Tap "Someone else? Use a password", sign in, and set a new one.
  11. Get it wrong five times and the tablet forgets you, which is deliberate. Sign in with your password to set it up again.
  12. Everything you record is still saved under YOUR name, so always check it is your photo showing before you write anything down.
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