how to duplicate apps like Signal?

grapheneman

I would like to duplicate Signal and Telegram for using them with the secondary phone number but i cant find this function. I am new the graphene OS sorry for being lame

Grkrz

grapheneman you could do Molly plus signal

Hat

grapheneman
Do a backup before for Signal, not sure if Molly allow more data replication than the official app.

Toomanyuserprofiles

Molly sounds super interesting

Arian

Hi, what about if WhatsApp was the one i need to duplicate?
And, what about the issue of the contracts sharing necessity between profiles?

evalda

Arian You can use WhatsApp with separate identifies in two (or more) separate user profiles.

Sharing contacts would defeat the purpose of separate identities tho, so maybe I didn't get what you're trying to accomplish.

RRZishe

evalda Whatsapp lets you have two accounts, if you don't mind Whatsapp knowing the accounts both belong to you.

freezet

Shelter also can do that.

evalda

RRZishe Thanks, yes, I assumed the goal is to prevent WhatsApp from easily linking two accounts. Although even with 2 user profiles on the same phone, apps have technical means to detect it's the same phone. Whether a specific app (e.g. WhatsApp) does it or not depends on of they implemented this device fingerprinting and how well they did it.

RRZishe

evalda how can they detect that it's the same phone?

evalda

RRZishe DRM ID, battery stats + less unique things like timezone, system-wide settings.

Arian

Yes, shelter seems to do that but just in the main profile which i still keep GSF free.

Like the creator of the post I need to use 2 different WhatsApp accounts, one for each phone line (1 personal and 1 for a familiar local business). I need to manage also at least 2 calendars and 2 list of contacts ( till now using 2 different Google accounts was easy).

Trying to turn my privacy on the better i can I'm looking for the best GOS setup here is my approach: 4 profiles ( Main clean of GSF and just with FOSS essential apps, third and fourth ones with GSF for baking and stores respectively and the Second one with GFS for being my everyday's personal and work profile with Google accounts for calendars, contacts and calls).
As you can see the Second one is going indeed to be my main profile in terms of usage.

I'm now trying to build a Nextcloud server to migrate my contacts&calendars and making Nextcloud the one who synchronizes with my Google accounts (i missed that i have 2 employees and family dependant of the synchronization of those calendars without technical skills for leaving Google's umbrella)

I don't know if it is the best option but I have doubts. If I continue with Google and don't turn off the second profile when I'm in the main one, my privacy will be damned, right? Furthermore, WhatsApp will do its thing with all my information from that profile as it did till now in my Xiomi since I have to allow it to use the network... newbie doubts.

Any better idea will be welcomed.

Arian

No answer so... I'll supose that that's the better option indeed?