Is it better than using the native private profile?
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UX wise, 100%. Switching between the main profiles is more like restarting your phone in new profile, and then restarting it back.
With the Island, you just have 2 custom sets of apps (personal/work) accessible at your finger tips.
- can open both at once
- copy paste text from one to another
- share files/pictures in between them, ...
The setup and onboarding is little cumbersome, but afterwards, the UX is solid. *The file sharing kinda sucks until you get used to it and develop some system.
I pretty much have the work profile w/ GPS just for the Google Camera and the fiat banking apps.
One thing I'm unsure though, whether I'm getting any real privacy/security benefits like this vs having the GPS installed and enabled just for some of the necessary apps.
I didn't mean profiles. I'm talking about the private profile in Android, I think it's quite new. Works similar to yours but its shipped with the OS and probably more secure
Oh, I haven't heard about that yet. Thanks, will have to look more. If the similar function is supported natively, that should be better for security, UX, and especially the backups (hopefully)