I never understood why people are using the same phone for work and private life. Even if they call my private phone number I won’t answer (especially outside work time). And my work phone stays on my desk, so also not available after work.
If I’m on call and out somewhere, I don’t want to have to carry two phones.
But when I’m on vacation or off for the weekend, I don’t want to be reachable by work.
Then you mute slack.
My work provides me with an iPhone which I keep on me while I’m on the clock, then when I get home I tuck it in my drawer until the next morning and pull out my S21. If I get a message on my work phone while I’m off the clock i intentionally wait until I clock in the next day to respond. If it’s an absolute emergency my work does know my personal number and can contact me that way but they have never done that. It’s actually a very convenient system.
They don’t even get my actual phone number… They get a Google Voice number that is only active during work hours.
My work pay’s a 70 dollar stipend if you have on-call duties, which pays my bill completely. I still have AGGRESSIVE DND rules and a whitelist for the on-call number so I’m only really bothered when I want to be.
I don’t have to buy a personal phone so I just use my work phone as my only phone.
FYI this is very risky for your personal privacy and security. Hope you never send a single message that you’re not ok with the whole company reading!
Dammit. I really liked the absolute off Android used to provide.
Fortunately Google no longer supports my Pixel so I won’t see this until I upgrade.
Get Pixel Experience or LineageOS. It’s the whole point of having a Pixel phone; you can still upgrade it after it was planned obsolescenced.
What a dumb change. Basically 0 benefit.
My work better provide me a phone if they want me to use it for work.
The whole reason I use the work profile is so I can freeze apps and not have them running in the background. I don’t actually use it for “work”, it’s just a second profile for apps that don’t need to be running in the background (which, let’s be honest, is like 90% of apps).
Guess I’ll be SOL in Android 14. RIP my battery life.
I use “extreme battery saver” mode to freeze apps. Your way is/was better.
It does not seem that you actually get nagged notifications while the work profile is paused.
As I understand it the apps get them but will display them when you resume your work profile.
Is this going to affect LOS/Graphene implementations?
The author mentions doing their test in Shelter, which is what I see everyone using for work profiles, unfortunately. Not sure if it could function differently for graphene than stock.
That would mean Work-Profiles are fundamentally broken.
I hate iOS but I’m really starting to hate Android too. Is the AOSP community planning to do something about this?
I believe there was a FOSS alternative to Shelter?
Shelter is FOSS.
Sensational title but most people have been asking for this change. Also not sure why it’s upsetting. I’m guessing the Apple bots that got purged have found a new home?
I thought the article explained it well.
Android 14’s work profile changes also mean you’re never truly away from work even if you pause the work profile. You’ll now definitely know when your boss or a colleague is calling you, and you’ll never show up as offline to work colleagues. Google basically replaced the previous behavior with an aggressive do-not-disturb mode, but we all know that not all jobs will respect that you’re off the clock.
Mishaal also mentioned that this could negatively affect battery life, and also allow work apps to continue accessing your location.
I mean beep boop beep
I think you replied to the wrong comment
