Probably not, yet there’s no easy way of preventing anyone seeing your stuff. With a MacBook it’s a couple of minutes’ job to set up a new user account. Your friends can then play without seeing (or upsetting) your own user account.
Last week, in Greece, I met acquaintances from home who had borrowed another friend’s iPad for the two weeks. Something to read on the beach. Very generous friend, but rather foolish friend, I have to say. There wasn’t even a password and, of course, emails began arriving the minute the iPad found a free wifi connection. It takes the fortitude of a saint to ignore all those reminders and not once, not even once, in a whole two weeks, be tempted to click on the Mail icon and take a peek. What’s worse, several chat sites had been left running, permanently logged in. Ho humm….
At the moment then, there’s just one bit of advice I can give to iPadistas: Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Unless, of course, you’ve read MacTrast and discovered all about iUsers. Admittedly this is a jail-break hack, so doesn’t appeal to me. Yet it’s a brilliant idea, particularly in families where it’s difficult to keep an iPad all to yourself. I suspect we will see an official Apple multi-user facility in a future release of iOS. Can’t come soon enough for me.