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How to Use Kid’s Corner in Windows Phone 8

Just like you, kids also love your smartphones. Now, what if they accidently send an email or an SMS to someone at your work or your boss? When Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 8, one of the new features was the availability of Kids corner. Kid’s Corner is a place on your phone where your child can play with the games, apps, music, and videos you add there, but can’t get to the rest of your stuff. You can add stuffs, including apps, games, videos etc to Kids corner and only this is available to your kids.

To start using Kids Corner, open settings on your Windows phone and navigate to Kids Corner. Click Next in the Kids Corner and you can now add items to this area. As you can see in the image, you can add games, music, videos and apps.

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You can select items in each section and add it to Kid’s corner. Once you have added stuff, click next.

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Now Kids corner is configured and click on the finish button. To access Kid’s corner, you can simply swipe the screen from right to left on the lock screen. Here you will be able to see Kid’s corner and when you open it, this see all the apps, games, music and videos added.

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You also have to option to customize the settings like name for kid’s corner, lock screen image, theme and background color.

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Kid’s Corner is a pretty good option if you have kids who often play without your smartphone.

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