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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.

#2usersetup
#dataseparation
#separatespaces
#androidmultipleusers
#dataseparation
#android15privatespace
#androidprivatespace
#umbrellaaccounts
#umbrellaaccount
#multipleusers
#onepersontwoprofiles
#2umbrellaaccounts
#android
#chromeos
#datasegregation
#android15
#googlechat
#communication

It says something about the incremental nature of mobile operating-system updates these days that my immediate payoff for installing Apple’s iPadOS 18 on my iPad mini 6–a 37-minute process Saturday afternoon, during which I couldn’t use the tablet for five minutes–was the addition of a calculator app.

Yes, the basic math application that shipped with the original Mac as a “Desk Accessory” applet, and which has remained absent from Apple’s iPad software since I watched Steve Jobs introduce the first one in 2010. Fourteen years later, it’s nice to know that iPad buyers won’t have to make installing PCalc one of their first tablet-setup tasks.

There’s more to iPadOS 18 than that, even setting aside the not-yet-shipped AI features that lead off Apple’s pitch for this release: a new standalone Passwords app (not relevant to me because I use 1Password), a new Privacy & Security category in the Settings app, the ability to require Touch ID authentication to open an app (and then hide that app’s presence behind Touch ID). But none of this stuff struck me as a reason to reach for my tablet when Apple shipped this release a month ago so I could install it right then.

I’m not writing that to knock Apple, because I have about the same reaction to Google’s Android 15 after installing it on a Pixel 8a right after I put iPadOS 18 on the iPad.

The standout features in this update are privacy and security tools that you hope you won’t need–a set of Theft Protection defenses designed to make your phone useless to a thief even if you weren’t able to lock it in time (but which you need to enable from their default state of off), plus a Private Space feature to hide apps behind biometric security that resembles the one I mentioned in iOS 18.

There’s more there–see my PCMag writeup for a breakdown–but this, too, is not an OS update that I’d be able to recognize on your device if I glanced at it from across a table. Which is okay! Technology could stand to have a little less drama.

That said, there is one mobile OS update that I do want to see get fast and widespread uptake: Apple’s iOS 18, which finally brings support for RCS messaging to the iPhone. That feature has yielded an immediate upgrade to my text chats with friends on iPhones running iOS 18, in the obvious form of typing indicators and higher-resolution multimedia and in the less-obvious form of our conversations being encrypted in transit instead of being sent in the clear. Those friends seem to find their end of the banter improved as well.

So if you have an iPhone that can run iOS 18, please ignore everything I wrote before the previous paragraph and rush to install this update. Thank you.

10/20/2024: Updated with a reminder to activate the anti-theft features in Android 15.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/19/the-thrill-may-be-gone-from-mobile-system-updates-and-thats-not-a-bad-thing/

#Android15 #AndroidPrivateSpace #greenBubbles #iOS18 #iPad #iPadCalculator #iPadOS18 #iphone #Pixel8a #RCS

Two stacked photos: The top one features an iPad mini 6 showing the install dialog for iPadOS 18, while the bottom one has a Pixel 6a with the Android 15 install dialog. An old wooden chessboard appears in the background of both photos.

draft - Will private space be allowed on multiple users? - search topic

https://www.google.com/search?q=Will+private+space+be+allowed+on+multiple+users

Or better worded:

Will Android 15 private space be able to be set up on multiple users?

For example, if I have a userA+userB setup, where I generally avoid logging into userB when in userA and vice versa, it would be nice to use private space to login to userB from userA in the private space, but it'd also be nice to be able to setup private space with userA when I'm logged into userB.

draft hashtags -

#privatespace
#androidprivatespace
#multipleusers
#android15privatespace
#pixel9
#pixel9pro
#pixel9fold
#pixelfold
#pixel8
#pixel8pro
#pixel9profold
#android15
#googlepixel
#stockandroid
#google
#communication
#tensorg2
#tensorg4
#tensorg3
#pixel9proxl
#gemini
#geminilive
#camera
#photos
#googlephotos
#googleone
#pixeldeals

I have this issue on Android 15 beta where private space is only available in one of my users

Android supports multiple users.

I have two users for myself.

On the default user, I have the ability to setup private space. And it works.

On userB, I do not see the ability to setup private space

Am I missing something or...

#androidbeta
#android15
#privatespace
#androidprivatespace
#pixel8
#pixel6a
#pixel7
#pixel9

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".

#samsung
#pixel
#multipleusers
#androidmultipleusers
#dataseparation
#android15privatespace
#androidprivatespace
#umbrellaaccounts
#umbrellaaccount
#multipleusers
#1person2users
#1person2profiles
#onepersontwoprofiles
#2umbrellaaccounts
#android
#chromeos
#dataseparation
#datasegregation
#microsoftaccount
#microsoftaccountongoogleos
#microsoftaccountasumbrellaaccount
#microsoftappsonandroid
#microsoftaccountasanongoogleaccount

draft - it seems that private space can only be used on one user in the android15 beta. Is this going to be fixed/addressed ? thank you.

draft hashtags:
#multipleusers
#privatespace
#android15
#androidprivatespace
#multipleusers
#dataseparation
#pixel
#pixel9
#pixel8
#pixel7
#pixel6
#pixel6a
#pixel9pro
#pixel9profold
#pixel9fold

I wish Microsoft had something like or exactly like Google voice - a free number that we could have and access but via a Microsoft account instead of a Google account.

draft - multiple users + now private space / hashtag topic. Related are Google accounts, umbrella accounts, data separation, data segregation etc...

#android15privatespace
#androidprivatespace
#multipleusers
#androidmultipleusers
#dataseparation
#umbrellaaccounts
#umbrellaaccount
#multipleusers
#1person2users
#1person2profiles
#onepersontwoprofiles
#2umbrellaaccounts
#android
#chromeos
#dataseparation
#datasegregation
#microsoftaccount
#microsoftaccountongoogleos
#microsoftaccountasumbrellaaccount
#microsoftappsonandroid
#microsoftaccountasanongoogleaccount

"Google’s new Private Space feature is like Incognito Mode for Android...

...At its Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Wednesday, Google announced Private Space, a new Android feature that lets users silo a portion of the operating system for sensitive information. It’s a bit like Incognito mode for the mobile operating system, sectioning designated apps into a “container.”"

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-new-private-space-feature-is-like-incognito-mode-for-android/

#android15
#androidprivatespace
#pixel
#pixel7
#pixel8
#pixel6a
#teampixel
#softwarecontainer
#appcontainer
#appsandboxing
#privatespace
#privatespaceandroid
#android15privatespace
#stockandroid
#googlepixel
#googlepixel6a
#googlepixel7
#googlepixel8