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Work profiles are inferior to separate user profiles, which are built-in to GrapheneOS. Also "private space" is now available with Android 15 and can provide t

• Unroasted6154 1y ago
  Don't you have user profiles in Pixels? I can create another user an switch. Just not super convient. Work profiles are actually pretty good good... For work.
• piaste 1y ago
  > Work profiles are inferior to separate user profiles, which are built-in to GrapheneOS. Different use cases. User profiles are only active when you manually switch to them, while work profiles are active _alongside_ your main profile. So for untrusted apps that you only use occasionally and on-demand (like the myriads of travel / shopping / random services apps), user profiles are great. For apps that you want to keep in the background, such as the proprietary messaging apps that all your friends use, a work profile is much nicer.
  • strcat 1y ago
    Private Space is very similar to a user profile but nested inside of another user. GrapheneOS adds shared clipboard control for Private Space which was the main disadvantage compared to a secondary user. GrapheneOS supports having a Private Space in secondary users instead of only a single one in Owner. Supporting multiple Private Spaces per user is a planned feature at which point work profiles will be fully obsolete. The remaining use case for work profiles is to have both a Private Space and work profile in the Owner user.