It seems that they have accidentally posted the announcement earlier than intended, but it will probably show up later during the day.

  • seang96A
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    22 days ago

    I never thought of using work profile this way. How does it affect usability? Like you have to turn on work profile whenever you want to use the apps?

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      22 days ago

      The biggest friction point for me is the fact that files can only cross the work profile boundary by using the Android’s share sheet (or with cloud storage, I guess), and some apps (cough cough Meta crap) didn’t like it when you shared a file they couldn’t directly access with them. I didn’t encounter any such issues recently though.

      If you pause the work profile (there’s a button in the launcher to do that), all apps in it get killed and their icons and widgets in the launcher get grayed out. If you tap a grayed out icon, you get a dialog asking you if you want to unpause work apps. I think there are ways to automate pausing, but I don’t use anything like that and literally only have the pause/unpause button as a toggle for the intrusive apps.