AppLocker • Passcode lock apps

I was a young soul, full of life and joy. Upon buying this app, I was enthusiastic to try it out, my face filled with wonder at the allegedly “capabilities” of this mystifying, captivating app. But I did not realize that app of my happiness would soon come to an abrupt end. For this app GLITCHED. After opening it just ONCE, suddenly my screen was covered by the app, except the app DID NOT LOAD. My mouse was forever stuck permanently loading, unable to click away, unable to quit the app, unable to click on anything else. I was trapped. I restarted my computer. It didn’t work. Not a single solution worked. And so, this app forced me to buy an entirely new computer. It wasted $1,299 dollars of my money. This app, is disgustingly terrible. Do not buy it if you value your life. Without your computer, your boss will scream in rage and you will lose your job. Then, in an attempt to quell the fires of agony, you will buy a new computer with the last of your money. Pain in your eyes and desperation in your voice, you will resort to begging for money on the streets, glazing and licking the shoes of anyone who dares spare a single glance at the cowering figure of YOU. You will fall into severe depression, losing will to live. This app will kill you.

I tried this app locker to protect a couple of sensitive apps From prying eyes. It did work and required my touch IDor password to unlock the app. I liked it at first, But then it became annoying every time the app would time out on me and I had to unlock it again. Lost some unsaved work that way. That said, it still worked to protect the apps UNTIL I decided to remove the lock and could not figure out how to do so on only one app at a time. So I decided to delete the app locker completely and maybe reinstall to start over or leave it off. This is where the security issue became apparent. I was able to delete the program with no password or touch ID required and it released all of the locks. Anyone with access to the iPad could have accessed all the locked programs by simply deleting the app locker app. When multiple users are allowed on the iPad, this is not acceptable. I gave a 3 stars because of the app working to lock apps but only a 3 because of the security problem. I considered a 2.

I use this app to lock other apps — it’s easier than Shortcuts or Screen Time itself and has some other useful features. Recently, though, this app and others like it have had trouble presenting the apps list, but if you know what apps you want to secure, you can do it using the search bar. Still, I hope the app list problems can be fixed. My only other criticism is that the app password is only four digits; six alphanumeric would be better, and some sort of timeout feature would be good, too.