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I get why folks would want this, but personally I kind of feel like it’s a personal device, akin to a mobile phone.

Jedd 4y ago
Android's had multi-user capabilities since v4.2 (2013-07). This doesn't mean that a 1:1 relationship between a person and their phone / tablet isn't the common configuration - I'm sure it is - but it's fair to say that 'the rest of the world' has had this feature for nearly a decade. As a sibling comment noted, Apple has developed this feature already in their 'the first hit is free' (aka the Education <sic>) version, so at this point it smells a lot like a plain old vanilla-flavoured marketing ploy.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  I think the real answer is that Apple does not see Android tablets as real competition so they don't need to match Android feature for feature since someone considering an iPad will not consider a Samsung tablet a viable alternative.
  - kcplate 4y ago
    Just my opinion, but I have both apple and android Samsung tablets (use both for testing), The android tablets are simply not in the same ballpark in terms of quality and UX. So if I was Apple, I doubt I’d take the android tablet market seriously. Android mobile phones are viable alternatives but not the tablets.
    - Jedd 4y ago
      To be fair, that first statement conflates Samsung and Android, so the second half of your first line should be that Samsung tablets are not in the same class. Samsung's take on Android is, in my experience, dreadful.
Gigachad 4y ago
Personally I only use my ipad as a drawing tablet. I'd be perfectly happy to share it with family members if that didn't mean giving access to my entire apple account and notifications / IMs / Photos
cassianoleal 4y ago
I’d love multi-user support on my iPhone. Or at the very least, multi-AppleID. I have accounts in 2 countries. Some apps are only available on one or the other. To install (and some times to upgrade, but not always), I need to switch accounts. When I do that, I lose all my locally downloaded music, podcasts, etc. When I switch back, usually some app doesn’t, like Messages, or even Music. I usually only notice that says later, by which time I might have missed a lot of things. It’s also a pain trying to sign out and back into one of these apps, nothing is obvious.
johnwalkr 4y ago
I'd love to have it for work. I know that most on here absolutely don't want to mix personal and work devices, but I hate carrying 2 phones. I would gladly give a workplace I trust control over a sandboxed profile on my iphone instead of carrying 2 phones.
chazeon 4y ago
I have a large iPad Pro as shared screen on dinner table, and a smaller one as personal device. User should be able to decide themselves.
ChrisRR 4y ago
Why not let the user decide how they want to use it. If they don't want to use a multi user feature, they don't have to

Jedd 4y ago

Android's had multi-user capabilities since v4.2 (2013-07). This doesn't mean that a 1:1 relationship between a person and their phone / tablet isn't the common configuration - I'm sure it is - but it's fair to say that 'the rest of the world' has had this feature for nearly a decade. As a sibling comment noted, Apple has developed this feature already in their 'the first hit is free' (aka the Education <sic>) version, so at this point it smells a lot like a plain old vanilla-flavoured marketing ploy.

Gigachad 4y ago
I think the real answer is that Apple does not see Android tablets as real competition so they don't need to match Android feature for feature since someone considering an iPad will not consider a Samsung tablet a viable alternative.
- kcplate 4y ago
  Just my opinion, but I have both apple and android Samsung tablets (use both for testing), The android tablets are simply not in the same ballpark in terms of quality and UX. So if I was Apple, I doubt I’d take the android tablet market seriously. Android mobile phones are viable alternatives but not the tablets.
  - Jedd 4y ago
    To be fair, that first statement conflates Samsung and Android, so the second half of your first line should be that Samsung tablets are not in the same class. Samsung's take on Android is, in my experience, dreadful.

Gigachad 4y ago

Personally I only use my ipad as a drawing tablet. I'd be perfectly happy to share it with family members if that didn't mean giving access to my entire apple account and notifications / IMs / Photos

cassianoleal 4y ago

I’d love multi-user support on my iPhone. Or at the very least, multi-AppleID. I have accounts in 2 countries. Some apps are only available on one or the other. To install (and some times to upgrade, but not always), I need to switch accounts. When I do that, I lose all my locally downloaded music, podcasts, etc. When I switch back, usually some app doesn’t, like Messages, or even Music. I usually only notice that says later, by which time I might have missed a lot of things. It’s also a pain trying to sign out and back into one of these apps, nothing is obvious.

johnwalkr 4y ago

I'd love to have it for work. I know that most on here absolutely don't want to mix personal and work devices, but I hate carrying 2 phones. I would gladly give a workplace I trust control over a sandboxed profile on my iphone instead of carrying 2 phones.

chazeon 4y ago

I have a large iPad Pro as shared screen on dinner table, and a smaller one as personal device. User should be able to decide themselves.

ChrisRR 4y ago

Why not let the user decide how they want to use it. If they don't want to use a multi user feature, they don't have to