What is guided access for Android? Guided Access is an Android feature that keeps users on a pinned app and prevents them from navigating away until a password or pin is entered. This feature is useful for a host of reasons from managing student access at schools or at business demonstrations and kiosks. In this video, we'll outline the steps for enabling guided access on Android devices. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub. For more tech content like this, before enabling guided access, you'll first have to decide which apps to pin. Here's how to pin an app on Android versions 11 and up. First, open the settings app on your device, navigate to security, then click advanced. Note that on some devices this may appear as security and privacy, and more security and privacy respectively. Select app pinning to enable it. Then enter the pin or password to unlock your device. Next, open the app you want to pin open the app switcher or overview either by swiping up on your screen or tapping the square icon at the bottom of the screen. Select the app's menu and then tap the pin icon. When pinning an app, an onscreen message should appear. That will outline how to unpin it. The specifics of this step will depend on your device, but the typical method is to press the overview and back buttons at the same time, and then enter your pin. When prompted, It is important to remember that restricting app access does not fully protect your device. Apps can still access your data even if they're unpinned. Additionally, pinned apps can still be used to launch other apps. Android device management is good to enhance your organization's security, especially when used as part of a robust mobile device management system. For more information, check out our official blog post on guided access for Android devices linked in the description below.