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Google Should Bring Maintenance Mode to Pixel Phones
Samsung announced maintenance mode last year that lets you hide all of your apps and personal data from people at the repair center. By using this mechanism, you could actually simulate a factory reset on a device so that your device is not really being factory reset. And then when it's back to you, you can just turn that off and then your phone's back normal. I'm arguing in this article that Google should bring it to their Pixel phones and potentially also upstream it to the Android open source project so other manufacturers can implement it too.
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