Controlling content visibility on a computing device based on computing device location

A computing device comprising:

• a display screen;
• a storage device to store reduced content visibility mode configuration data to operate the computing device in a reduced content visibility mode;
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• a processor system that implements a content visibility control system to:
• unlock the computing device for a user;
• determine that the computing device is in one of a private setting or a public setting based on whether a number of different voices detected by a microphone of the computing device exceeds a threshold number;
• operate, in response to determining that the computing device is in the private setting based on the number of different voices not exceeding the threshold number, in a full content visibility mode in which multiple icons are displayed on the display screen of the computing device, each respective icon being associated with a set of content that is accessible via selection of the respective icon;
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• operate, in response to determining that the computing device is in the public setting based on the number of different voices exceeding the threshold number, in the reduced content visibility mode in which a reduced subset of the multiple icons is displayed on the display screen, one or more icons that are not in the reduced subset are removed from the display screen, and one or more sets of content associated with the one or more icons are made inaccessible to the user.

A method implemented in a computing device, the method comprising:

• unlocking the computing device for a user;
• determining that the computing device is in one of a private setting or a public setting based on whether a number of unknown faces detected by a camera of the computing device exceeds a threshold number;
• operating, in response to determining that the computing device is in the private setting based on the number of unknown faces not exceeding the threshold number, in a full content visibility mode in which multiple icons are displayed on a display screen of the computing device, each respective icon being associated with a set of content that is accessible via selection of the respective icon;
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• operating, in response to determining that the computing device is in the public setting based on the number of unknown faces exceeding the threshold number, in a reduced content visibility mode in which a reduced subset of the multiple icons is displayed on the display screen, one or more icons that are not in the reduced subset are removed from the display screen, and one or more sets of content associated with the one or more icons are made inaccessible to the user.