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> The user containers are very helpful You mean different user accounts? Those are available on stock Android, too.
by codethief 1y ago
> The user containers are very helpful
You mean different user accounts? Those are available on stock Android, too.
- a0sud0a8s 1y agoTrue, although on GrapheneOS, apps on different profiles can remain active when you switch and notifications can be sent to the primary profile if you choose.
- ysnp 1y agoI think it depends on the Android distribution. I am not sure it is available on Samsung's One UI.
- gertop 1y agoMultiple user is available on Samsung. Both multiple profiles as well as work profile. Samsung also has "secure folder" which isolates apps and files and presumably uses multiple users to do the isolation.
- ysnp 1y agoApparently multiple user profiles is available on their tablets but not on their smartphones.
- strcat 1y agoSecure folder is an older approach to what Android provides via the standard Private Space feature since Android 15. Private Space and work profiles are based on the same infrastructure as secondary users including per-profile encryption keys, although typically work profile management apps don't take advantage of it.
- aucisson_masque 1y agolast time I tried, my samsung phone couldn't use multiple profiles. it is a setting that has been disabled in oneUI since a few years. Don't ask me why.
- subscribed 1y agoOn GrapheneOS they're profiles. Pretty much the same as with the stock aosp, but they add very extensive support - like notifications forwarding and a perfect balance between security and convenience, 2FA with shorter pin.
- codethief 1y ago> but they add very extensive support Huh, I didn't realize they had added additional functionality not present on stock Android. Thanks!
- electric_muse 1y agoIt's incredibly useful! I have one profile for the "social" apps I don't trust (TikTok, Reddit, etc.). They can commingle. And there's another profile that contains the apps that rely on Google Play Services (e.g. something relies on google maps). As far as I understand it, it's like a strong firewall between them such that they are pretty close to having multiple different phones.
- codethief 1y agoWhat about settings, though? Don't you have to set up each user profile separately? Also, what if you ever want to share a file across user profiles?
- gruez 1y agoSee: https://github.com/VentralDigital/InterProfileSharing https://github.com/VentralDigital/InterProfileSharing It also shows that profiles can't really prevent an app from correlating profiles on the same device, by listening on a local socket.
- tranq_cassowary 1y agoIf you disallow Network permission to an app (a GrapheneOS feature), local network access is also disabled.
- strcat 1y agoYes, but a small subset of the GrapheneOS features are enhancements to user profiles and Private Space. We enable more of the standard user profile functionality that's usually not available (such as ending secondary user sessions or toggling them running the background) and add extra features such as notification forwarding. For Private Space, we enable making them in secondary users instead of only Owner and provide control over clipboard sharing instead of it always being shared with the parent profile (the user it's nested in). Our more prominent 2-factor fingerprint authentication feature is also relevant when switching between users a lot.
- shaky-carrousel 1y agoThe only thing I don't like from private space is that all notifications from apps inside private space are hidden. Wish that was configurable. I use private space for containerization, not to hide things.