Your password isn’t the only thing someone trusts you with when they hand you their phone.

An unlocked phone in your hand is a far larger act of trust than it looks, because everything anyone has ever said to that person sits one swipe away. What is being extended is not really about the device. It is about whether you can be somewhere private and not look around. Nobody says that part out loud, they simply find out.

Stay on the app you were handed it for. Do not scroll up, do not read the notification that lands. Giving it back without having looked is invisible, and it is the whole thing.