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And besides that, it's very easy to bypass those restrictions anyway. The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

In short, this limitation is rather pointless.



>The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks.

According to other comments in this thread, this just freezes when switching apps, and fails. I'm not too surprised, given that the feature (at least on Android) is meant as a security measure (i.e. most of the banking and 2FA apps use it to some extent).




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