#androidmultipleusers

2024-11-03

Google chat is a good service. But it doesn't quite pass the multiple users test. Some people, myself included, have a 2 user setup on Google pixel. Meaning, a default user, and an alt user. The reason for the 2 user setup is to avoid mixing data between the 2 user spaces. An issue with Google services on Android and ChromeOS is that, if you login to one Google app, it signs into all the other Google apps and services.

On Android and ChromeOS, could we get an option for a checkbox on login to Google apps for something like "just login to this one app (don't sign in to other Google apps)" or something to that effect? Either that, and/or, an option/ability to set a secondary/non-google login to Google chat with a few other alternate forms of non-google verification like microsoft/outlook account /yahoo /apple etc.

basically, any method whereby it'd give users the ability to login to certain Google apps like Google chat, without carrying the baggage of an entire Google account (photos, files, email etc) when logging in.

Another thing is that Google should bring private space to multiple users. The beautiful of Google pixel phones is the ability to have multiple users so users can have complete data separation. And while private space for the default profile is ok, where it would really shine is bringing private space to multiple users so we can access our "default" Google accounts in our "alt" user space without mixing data between the two users.

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2024-09-01

yaknow, if samsung wants to be a company who does software and stuff like that, then maybe they should go all in.

like, yaknow how microsoft has like, microsoft teams, and outlook and dozens of other relatively good web based stuff, which can be useful in a google operating system with multiple users where a user might have 2 umbrella accounts for themselves.

like, for example, i have a userA+userB setup. i use microsoft things like todo etc, so that i can access the todo list without having to signin from one google umbrella account inside the other, thereby dragging all the userA baggage into userB, or vice versa.

but, maybe samsung themselves should try to be more like a microsoft. like, create a united states company dedicated to software that's not google, but built for the google operating system world of android and chromeos, where users might want a relatively large third party company like microsoft, or in this case, a theoretically more "legit" version of a samsung that acts more like "a microsoft".

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2024-06-28

"5 One UI features I'd like to see on Pixel phones
They could turn Google's Pixel into the ultimate Android device."

draft - I'd also like the dual camera function that Samsung camera used to have where the photographer could activate *both* cameras when taking photos and videos to include the subjects *and* themselves in the photographs

Alternatively, one thing I'd like to see on Samsung phones would be multiple profiles, multiple user profiles, multiple users, whatever you wanna call it, you know what I'm talking about. It's built into stock android and works really well. I like to use *both* multiple users *and* private space. So that way, when I'm using userB, I can login to userA apps without having to worry about potential cross-account data leakage via Google apps etc, like google photos and such.

androidauthority.com/samsung-o

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