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check this out, that workaround may be of help, however, dunno if you need to "clean up" current environment from those extracted apks and aurora app first.
good luck!
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/16670-private-space-on-android-15-grapheneos/118
Private Space on Android 15 GrapheneOS
I propose to move bank nfc contactless payments into a separate thread https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17587-bank-app-in-private-space-to-be-default-for-nfc-contactless-payments if you don't mind, as with 160+msgs it's hard to follow this particular aspect of private spaces.
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mmobder i guess the summary very short - either garmin watch or curve pay in selected countries. and the app that works with a bank in Germany
andrej567 the summary very short - either garmin watch or curve pay
it's not about wallets but rather about dedicated bank app that "knows you" anyway.
and no, as per @vagrantly321 , there is a workaround, however it may be good to discuss it in a dedicated thread https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17587-bank-app-in-private-space-to-be-default-for-nfc-contactless-payments
mmobder it is working, I'm still paying with my phone with no issue. I'm on the latest 2024111800
Yeah, maybe let's have a dedicated thread if possible.
Does enabling the eSIM support in the Private Space also enable it in the Owner profile?
Does enabling the eSIM support in user profile A also enable it in all user profiles?
Another thing: something I found quite annoying when setting up different users is that if you enable calls/SMS for a certain user, the history is shared with the Owner. Is this also the case with private space?
It' would be a lot of work to enable Private Space for non-owner profile ?
I like to treat Owner as root that have complex password and is not used very often, only for administrative task.
Currently i have separate main and work profiles , but switching between is kinda painful.
But i would love to have work apps in private space of main profile (non-owner) .
kwikk It' would be a lot of work to enable Private Space for non-owner profile ?
Since the feature has just dropped, and there are still bugs being fixed, and Google may well make changes to how the code works in the next couple of quarterly releases, I would be surprised if the GrapheneOS developers would think now is a good time to invest in making local changes.
strict-marsh We never recommended replacing a secondary user with Private Space. We recommended replacing work profiles with Private Space. Better OS integration is referring to Private Space having user interfaces as part of the OS to manage it and share files between it and the Owner user instead of depending on a management app.
7 days later
Not sure if the this problem I have is related to the Private Space but it could be, So I am asking here. I installed the sandboxed Google Play Store in the Private Space. Now for some reason, I don't have access to an app because it's "not available in your country". But the app should only be available in the country I am located right now. When I then checked the Play Store country settings as explained here it tells me
"Switch to the COUNTRY Play Store" where COUNTRY is the country I am currently in (I am not using a VPN and have not left the country in a long time) and when I click on it nothing happens. So the country is somehow not set to the correct one (or not set at all, I can't tell) and changing is not possible.
Is this a known issue? I've already restarted the device (Google Pixel 6a) and changed from mobile internet to WiFi but it still does not work. I did not have this issue when I used the Play Store outside the Private Space (it's only installed now in the Private Space, nowhere else).
So can someone who has the Play Store installed in the Private Space click on "Country and Profiles" or "Switch to the YOUR-COUNTRY Play Store" or is it also disabled for you?
relaxed_shtern So the country is somehow not set to the correct one (or not set at all, I can't tell) and changing is not possible.
According to the help article you linked to, it looks like you can only change your country once a year. It sounds like you haven't done that recently, but maybe it's a new account and they won't let you change your country too soon after creating the account?
I have done this once before. Looking at the help article, I remember it wasn't easy to change my country either. You have to add a payment option for the country you want to change to before you can finish changing the country. If you are having issues with that, you might need to contact Google's customer support.
Not wanting to open a discussion here, but work profile works without a management app afaik.
An app like shelter allows to install apps to another profile, which can also be used to update them locally. This does not exist with work profiles.
Apart from that, work profile apps are integrated better. They have a normal app drawer placement, they can be added to the homescreen. They use the share portal as private space, using the app share2storage you can share files.
There is a quicksettings widget to turn them off, this doesnt exist for the private space.
Calling the OS integration better is a @bold hypothesis
missing-root I am waiting with moving from work profile to private space too. Its not about graphene os, i understand the feature arrived in android 15 and who knows how it will be improved further in general android....
for me it's not about private or not, i need a simple button to make a subset of apps to shut up in the evening, nothing more. If it could be sheduled, even better.
andrej567 tbh this could be implemented if the "disable user apps" feature was adapted to still show the app icons on the drawer and home screen.
Or if apps could have a mode where they really only spawn if you click on them, and immediately close when they are not in foreground.
missing-root Not wanting to open a discussion here, but work profile works without a management app afaik.
An app like shelter allows to install apps to another profile ...
Shelter is a device management app. That is why work profiles works if you have Shelter. Work profiles need a device management app, it is impossible to create or manage them otherwise.
ryrona the point is you dont need that "management". You can share files there with the share portal, configure settings in the settings app and toggle it on or off in the app drawer.
You can remove shelter after setting the profile up. It still works, I did that on my old phone.
2 months later
I flashed my phone to use the stock Android. I couldn't find the Private Space feature. So I talked to the Google support. Here is the answer. The Pixel engineering team decided to remove the Private Space feature. As of now, no Pixel device using Android 14 and higher supports it, you reinstall your device, you lose the feature. I'm not sure what happens if you had activated and then update your device. They don't want to give any explanation, they can't provide an ETA for an update on this. I wasn't even given the answer to "are they working on re-enabling it".
Maybe related?
cybermattic interesting, if true i would be interested in the motivation behind this decission.