Mobile Feature Request: lock playback controls when children are watching

[tom80H]

There’s already an existing suggestion discussing an option to lock the screen while playing media for your kids. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.

Option to lock the screen while playing on mobile

Excellent idea from this thread: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/101461-lock-the-screen-when-playing-video/     We use Plex a lot on our tablet when we're traveling so the kid can watch Power Pony Time or Sesame Road or whatever. But, cute as she is, she can't keep her hands and feet of the screen. Other players have an option to lock the screen during playback until you touch a particular area of the screen to unlock it. Does this feature exist in the Plex player?   Having kids and multip…