DeletedUser124 I have Private Space to set only lock on device restart. But I still get prompted with fingerprint unlock almost every time and I try to open an app. Even if I use the app, go to homescreen and then try to re open that app, it asks for fingerprint again.

Is that happening to anyone else?

This is because the private space is set to automatically lock itself every 5 minutes by default. Go to private space settings and set "Lock private space automatically" to: "Only after device restarts". You can lock the private space manually at any time. This way is behaves more like a work profile.

      DeletedUser131 I already did this, but I still need to unlock the app with fingerprint after locking my device (even if it's just for 1 second) .

      The weird thing is I remember it working just fine the first couple of hours.

      I already tried restarting the device and toggled between the settings multiple times. :(

      Just to clarify: my Private Space UI is not locked (I can see my installed apps in the app drawer). But when I try to open one of the private Space apps, I get prompted to unlock the app with fingerprint every time after locked my device

        DeletedUser124 yeah I think that's exactly what's happening. So this is normal behavior, even after changing the private space auto lock option to "only after restart" (rough transition of the setting name because I don't use English on my phone)?

        It's what occurs in stock PixelOS for me as well, so I have to assume that it's intended behaviour.

            Can someone confirm what the security/privacy benefits of private space is vs user profile?
            Integration / OS specific things which work better I don't care about.

            Private space - Main profile can't see the installed apps

            Is that the only benefit so far?

              fid02 hmm okay. I hope the developers can change that behaviour one day, because it's kinda annoying to use that way :(

                rellhom I guess so. Apps from my other profile are listed in the owner as "not installed for current user" but they actually show up in the app list.

                  DeletedUser131 I noticed the same thing using Aurora Store. No popup asking for network permission when installing apps in background in private space.

                  Same here. But I used Aurora Store - not within Private space yet - to update Google Pixel Camera app on Android 15. At install time (with Android 14) I had rejected Network permission.

                  So why can Google Pixel Camera re-gain Network permission automatically on update, without my knowledge? From own experience, this might be a more general problem outside Private Space.

                    Protonuser Can someone confirm what the security/privacy benefits of private space is vs user profile?

                    There are no security or privacy benefits with private space compared to secondary user profiles. Secondary user profiles are the most isolated kind of profiles.

                    Private space is a convenience feature that offers similar security and privacy to a secondary user profile while being far more convenient to use.

                    For example, private space share clipboard with main profile, so apps in private space and main profile can see what is copy pasted in the other. This is one of, and in my opinion the biggest security and privacy tradeoff private space have done compared to secondary user profiles. Secondary user profiles have their own clipboard, so clipboard data cannot leak cross-profile.

                    But, private space is more secure and private than a work profile, while having similar convenience.

                    So secondary user profiles are the most secure and private, then private space, then work profiles.

                      I hope at some point this feature will be accessible outside of the launcher. I'm not lazy or closed to novelty but yet can't really imagine using anything else than Nova; it has defined the smartphone usage and everything I expect out of it for a decade.

                      But it turned into the shadow of itself, thanks to good ol' capitalism (company was bought and gutted). I expect the next update for 2026.

                        Canardo_Sanchez I too had used Nova Prime for over a decade. A couple months ago I switched to Lawnchair. Not quite as customizable as Nova but I forced myself to get used to it and after about a week I haven't looked back.

                        For everyone else, what launcher are y'all using to use private space? Are there any that work other than stock and pixel?

                            GrouchyGrape as of right now, I set up private space to have "spyware" apps that I don't use on a regular basis, but still need to live within the realm of the owner profile. I currently switch the launcher to stock whenever I need to access private space. A few years ago, there was an app called "no'me" which let you switch launchers easily, but it disappeared from the face of the earth some time ago. My main launcher is also Lawnchair, but even their nightly builds have no support for private space yet. I guess it will take a few months until it arrives, until then I (we) will have to live with this workaround.

                              Protonuser rellhom No, that's not an advantage of Private Space. Apps in the Owner user cannot see installed apps in other users or the Private Space. The Owner user themselves can see the overall installed apps. Private Space is not supposed to offer any privacy or security advantages over user profiles. The advantage it offers is that it's nested in the Owner user interface and therefore more convenient than switching users. User profiles offer some advantages through having an entirely separate user interface, but an isolated clipboard can be brought to Private Space as an option in GrapheneOS and is already being worked on.

                                    Is there any way to install apps installed in the owner user into the private space?

                                    I'm new to GrapheneOS so please forgive me if I'm wrong. I read multiple people here who want to put Google Play/spyware apps in the private space, but doesn't it make more sense to put that in the main profile and then use trusted / open source apps in the private space?

                                      GrapheneOS Is the stock OS ability to "Install app in Private Space" planned for GrapheneOS? I read this option was removed as it was not relevant for GrapheneOS implementation. Is there a best practice for installing the same app in both Owner and private Space to avoid versioning conflicts ?

                                        Killjoy not at all, no. The owner profile has the most insight into the other profiles, you can imagine it as an "admin lite". Play Services should exist in owner profile only when you need some app that needs to run 24/7 and relies on Play Services. Apart from that it's wiser to just cram Play Services into a work/secondary user/private space profile.

                                            Does anyone know if you can access the full settings in the Private Space? Specifically to set up a fingerprint unlock or custom keyboard in the Private Space. The reason I ask is I'd like to set up KeyPassDX and I typically use biometric unlock and Magikeyboard, but not sure I know how to do it.

                                            Happy to create another thread if that's better.

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                                              I had a similar issue with a bank app inside the Private Space, but somehow the SMS app from the main profile would open instead. I've also had to install Fossify Phone and Fossify SMS just to make sure the relevant requirements are picked up by the bank app, but even with with this setup I'd send the SMS and the verification would fail. I think more than the Phone permission itself it also needed to read the phone number advertised by the SIM or something like that. After retrying the verification a few times, at some point it finished with success, which could maybe work for some as a workaround, but I wouldn't say it is reliable.