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Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it though? I have three profiles on my phone:

  1. main - all my normal apps; no Google Play whatsoever
  2. work - work apps; Google Play services running
  3. google - Google stuff (like Google Maps and whatnot); Google Play services running

This is on GrapheneOS, and they basically just ship AOSP with some patches on top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Congrats. You just volunteered to teach all the boomers (and the zoomers who can't do anything that isn't google docs) how to set all that up and maintain it

May Erastil have mercy on your soul

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Eh, it's not too bad:

  1. Settings
  2. System
  3. Multiple Users -> Allow
  4. Add User

Then to switch, there will be a new icon next to the Settings icon when you swipe down. Tap that and select the profile you want.

I use GrapheneOS, which ships w/o Google Play by default (installation process is a little trickier, but still easy), but most phones won't have an option to uninstall Google Play since it's a default system app. But if have managed to install GrapheneOS, setting up a profile to quarantine your Google Play apps is pretty easy.