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Is anyone using multiple profiles on Android? What for?

From Marion@[email protected] to comp.mobile.android on Fri Sep 5 17:00:21 2025

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I just found out, today, that there are multiple profiles on Android.
Is anyone here using them? What for?

Maybe we can learn from each other?
Q: How do you make use of multiple profiles in Android?
A: ?

(See vignette below as to why I'm asking this question.)

I was talking about multiple *android*
users, not google accounts ...

<https://support.google.com/android/answer/2865483?hl=en-GB>

Whoa! I thought there was only two users on Android, Work & Personal.
Now I see from Andy's helpful link there are users aplenty on Android.

A while ago I had installed insular/island/shelter which employed the Work
and Personal profiles as part of Android's enterprise features which are designed to separate business apps and data from personal ones.

Until I clicked on Andy's link, I was unaware outside of that, Android also allows you to create additional user accounts, guest accounts, and even restricted profiles depending on the device and Android version.

Who knew?
Not me.

I guess I have a lot of homework to do...

REFERENCES:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBUczkkZWM>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfMd4wG9llI>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNEkMpG0tRU>
<https://www.tiktok.com/@izziboye/video/7228684055628418309>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU6lNSZ8odM>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVR-QQeHN3Y>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLyQKdp9DI>
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From Andy Burns@[email protected] to comp.mobile.android on Sat Sep 6 10:14:38 2025

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Marion wrote:

there are multiple profiles on Android.
Is anyone here using them? What for?

I have one called "Priv" that is never signed-in to anything ... I
suppose it's not so different from having the "Guest" account.

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