How do you guys personally set up your user profiles?

xezis

I made the switch to GrapheneOS as of yesterday, and I am trying to get used to all the differences from the stock OS. I will handle it to Google for making it effortless to sync everything(, but at what cost?)

As of right now, my main focus is creating a profile that basically has all of my everyday use apps, such as the limited socials that I use and general apps that I know some of them works off Google Play Services. So think apps like Gasbuddy, Discord, Insta, and so on. These are apps I don't necessarily care if they're in the same sandbox, especially if I can fine tune the permissions of each app.

Ideally, I would also like to create other profiles purely for school and work, but I'll create those once I know I can set up a profile properly, even if it must have Google Play Services enabled. Can I ask for help on this? What settings and/or library dependencies do I must have for this type of profile to work?

oci3o

Its entirely up to how you want to manage apps.
I like using the main profile to install apps, then shift the apps into each user based on their requirement (car for example has Android Auto, GPlay etc).

My usual profiles are as follows:

Installer (Owner profile).
Daily (Mostly FOSS apps, has WhatsApp via Obtanium also).
Banking, this just has banking, everything else I can disable is disabled after setup.
Car - this has Android Auto, Google Play, my music app, comaps, none required apps are disabled.

I lock each profiles ability to install apps afterwards, giving it sort of a software install restriction / removing admin rights type feel.

As for "must have for this type of profile to work", setup the profile you want, say work, then go back to owner, on the profiles screen just get it to install Google play on that profile, then if you want, login with your primary account or a throw away google account on the work profile, and install what you need, keep play store and services active for updates.
That should be it, obviously if the app has specific requirements you would need to ask the community, but 95% of apps, you'll likely be fine :)

xezis

oci3o Thank you for your suggestions! The first three profiles you described were basically what I had in mind before creating the profile I was referring to just now. It dawned on me the need for a specific profile for when you're driving. I'll do just that.