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User profiles & guest mode

Personal desktops, child restrictions and family shares — how profiles work.

4 min readUpdated: 20 August 2026

Profiles turn a family device into personal devices: everyone gets their own desktop, apps, files and dashboards — and parents decide what children may see.

Setting up profiles

  1. 1Open Settings → System → Family profiles.
  2. 2Create an account for each person — Standard or Child (with app whitelist).
  3. 3For child profiles, choose which apps appear in the launcher and the command palette.

Guest mode & family shares

  • Guest mode: enable it in the security settings — visitors get a temporary session without persistence
  • Family shares: share folders via the Files app context menu (read-only, for all family members)
  • After a guest signs out, nothing remains

Guests get a temporary session without persistence — after signing out, nothing remains.

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