Kumki Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Hello, I am very new to Android. I got 2 samsung tab 2 7.0 for my kids and Galaxy note 10.1 for myself last week. I set up these devices using my same gmail account, so that I could get the games on all devices.The problem now is my emails, calenders and contact info are showing in all my device. I want to restrict this to be available only on my note. I don't want my emails, calender and other alerts to show up on my kids devices. How do I do that without loosing the ability of downloading games from google play and Amazon app store? I have iphones and ipad(wife) where I can download on itunes and sync it. Is anything similar available on Android? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmdixon Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 You can turn off the sync of these via Settings -> Accounts. There's nothing to stop your kids enabling the sync again though. There are some 'parental control' apps available on the market which allow you to allow/disallow certain apps so depending on how restricted you want to be these might be worth investigating... Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 ^^ This is more or less the same as I understand too, disabling sync will do as you want, but no reason the kids couldn't enable it again, unless you root and remove the email apps manually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumki Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Thanks for the replies. I will check at the sync options available. I don't want to mess with rooting and all as this is my first set of Android devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c.grz Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Can I make a recommendation? Create a gmail account that is just for phone and tablet app sharing. That way you can get the apps across all your devices without sharing email, calendar or contacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumki Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Thanks for the suggestion. I figured, that I could just remove my id on email and other stuff on the tab itself. That seems to be working the way I wanted now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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