Touch Protector
Android 8 and up

The screen stops responding.
The music keeps playing.

Running with the phone in an armband, sweat and rubbing pause the music and skip the track. One tap on the tile in the quick settings — like Wi-Fi — and the screen stops responding to touches. The volume keys keep working.

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1 tap
From the shade
3
Ways to unlock
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Press and hold 2 seconds to unlock
Blackout mode. The status bar and the navigation bar stay touchable.
Features

A lock for the screen, not for the phone.

01
One tap, from the shade
Add the Touch lock tile to the quick settings and turn the lock on and off from there, next to Wi-Fi, with the app closed. On Android 13 and up the app asks the system to add the tile for you.
02
Blackout mode
A black screen that stays on at minimum brightness, with a clock in the middle if you want one. It keeps you off the lockscreen, where the music controls would become touchable again: that is almost always the real culprit behind the skipped track.
03
Screen off in the pocket
While something covers the screen the display really turns off, and no touch reaches anything. Uncover it and you are back on the lock, without passing through the lockscreen. It only shows up on phones that support it.
04
Three ways to unlock
Hold for 1 to 5 seconds, or tap 2 to 5 times: you pick. The Unlock button in the notification, with a slide to confirm. And in an emergency, three screen wakes with the side key within five seconds — which never go through the touchscreen at all.
05
Calls come first
If a call comes in, the lock suspends itself so you can answer, and comes back on its own when the call is over.
06
Built to never leave you stuck
An automatic unlock after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, if you set one. And after a reboot the lock never turns itself back on: a phone that comes back locked is a phone you cannot use.
And also
English and Italian Android 8 and up Volume keys keep working Vibration on blocked touches Blocked touches counter Follows your system theme
What it does not cover

The shade and the navigation bar stay touchable.

Android places the window of every ordinary app below them, on purpose. All the rest of the screen is blocked; those two areas are your way out.

The only way to cover them would be an accessibility service, and Google Play reserves that for tools for people with disabilities. This is not one, so it does not pretend to be. The notification keeps its Unlock button behind a confirmation for the same reason: the shade is reachable, so a stray touch there must not be enough.

The lockscreen is the other place the lock cannot reach: there the system hides it, and no ordinary app can change that. So the app keeps you from getting there. While the lock is on, the screen does not turn off at the system timeout, unless you ask it to in the settings.

Touches sent under the lock4 ABSORBED · 0 THROUGH
Tile, app in backgroundLOCK STARTS
Screen on, 15 s timeoutSTILL ON AT 25 S
Screen covered, 60 s timeoutOFF FOR 5 MIN 21 S
Nine cover-uncover cyclesOFF · ON WITHIN 1 S
Lock over the lockscreenNOT POSSIBLE

Measured on the Android emulator (API 34), a Pixel 10 Pro (Android 17) and a Galaxy A15 (One UI 6). Every number above, and how it was taken, is written down in the project's notes.

It has no internet access
Not «it doesn't send anything»: it cannot. The app asks for no network permission, so it has no way to open a connection at all. Your settings stay on the phone, and nothing else is kept. The privacy page says it in full.
Free, with no strings
No ads, no account, no paid version: every feature on this page is in the app you download. If it saved a run for you, the app has a link to offer me a coffee — and that is all it is.

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Free, no ads, no account. An independent project.
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