I used your app which called Verified Apps to scan my apps and I found that Shelter the famous work profile manger is SO OUTDATED and now I am looking for an alternative. Could you give me any suggestions?

I personally can’t see how this is outdated, it seems that the repo you linked is being updated Have you tried the native Private Space?

They only updated F-droid thing and README file and the rest have not been update for more than 1 year. And by saying the native Private Space you mean that one which in built-in the mobile? My Samsung phone doesn’t have this feature built-in.

[image] Remove Shelter hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Defense of Work Profiles Work profiles can be scheduled, not private spaces yet. GrapheneOS acknowledges work profile use-cases: The remaining use case of a work profile for now is that you can’t h…

what samsung are you using, or to be precise that means you’re not on Android 15 or above?

I am on android 16 and if I can make a work profile using built-in feature in my phone, How will I trust that the work profile is completely private from the rest of my phone and BTW I am downloading games and do all the unsafe stuff in the work profile so that’s why I need something trusted to mana…

Sound like “Secure Folder” in Samsung phones, Am I right?

what games may I ask? you can use a VPN, DNS-wide content blocking (or ones that run on your phone I guess like rethinkdns) and an email alias within a game so I wouldn’t worry about it

Fortnite, Plato, Hustle Castle, some cracked games, cracked apps and more. Right now I am using Invisible Pro beta for the main profile with NextDNS and Tor for changing my IP and TrackerControl for the work profile, So I Think the workaround you are suggesting is a little “poor” for what I am look…

maybe check [image] GitHub - oasisfeng/island: Island for Android Island for Android or What is “Insular” Isolate your big brother

The last release was more than 2 years ago, according to the F-Droid repository. It might not be a problem, since the dev is still active (see the screenshot) [image]

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