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So after trying to live with 2 seperate user profiles for a couple days, I give up. I have to switch between profiles all the time and it's too much for me. So next best thing I guess is using a work profile for better integration. I use shelter just for the record. My question is, can the apps between profiles talk to each other through mutual consent? I installed the app trio of play services on the work profile. On my main profile I have some Google apps like the phone app and contacts app (I love the aesthetic and can't keep up with the antiquated old look of the stock apps) + google framework installed but every single google related app on the personal profile has network access disabled. Will they be able to talk to the work profile google services which do have network access enabled and send data to google? I don't really care about different system user profiles having different cryptographic keys and other security benefits (cause i trust gos to work well enough for my main profile anyway). My main concern is privacy. Thanks in advance.

    notnn

    based on this article, I'd suggest you ask the Shelter people. They can define what kind of IPC communications are allowed across the profile boundary.

    If you want a good, solid boundary between your profiles, you'd be better off using user profiles instead.

    notnn Hi. I have had pretty much the same experience. After 2 weeks of trying to use GOS with multiple profiles, I reset the phone and have reverted to Shelter on the Owner profile. For me, it is not usable to keep switching Profiles. I use Signal. I can't just switch back and forth Profiles to manage messages on this.

      pdagenius Just in case you were not aware, you can use signal without play services, you just have to change its battery setting to "unrestricted". You will get notifications as normal. However I use Facebook messenger and some other apps that require play services and while I want them isolated I can't be switching user profiles every 5 minutes so yeah, Shelter it is. I even tried to test my communication concerns by installing the Facebook app on my work profile and messenger on both personal and work profiles. The work messenger would prompt me to login via the fb account from the app (meaning that they could talk to each other) while the personal messenger acted as if nothing existed, asking me for an email and a password so I believe there is no communication between personal and work apps

        notnn you can use signal without play services, you just have to change its battery setting to "unrestricted".

        It's a bit more involved than that, but the sentiment remains.

        There is no need to change Signal's battery profile, but you do need to ensure that the Play Services/Store apps aren't present within the same profile as Signal when it is first installed and run. Signal will then detect that Play isn't available and notify the user that the WebSocket protocol can be used for notifications instead.

        This method grants Signal the Alarms and reminders permission, allowing it to run in the background as a service. This will spawn a persistent notification, as mandated by Android for all background services. You can choose to minimize or block this notification without impacting the background service or incoming message notifications.