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.
Some people have different jobs that require it. Sometimes being able to check an email means less work, not more. Just because its there doesnt mean its toxic.
Same. I use my previous personal handset as my work phone. It doesn’t even have a SIM in it – I tether my current personal phone to it when I need it for work and not at home (I work remotely).
When I’m not at work, the WiFi on my work phone goes off.
Little messages / quick checks for work purposes add up very quickly. They’re insidious.
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.
I don’t have to buy a personal phone so I just use my work phone as my only phone.
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.
Unless LOS or a different custom ROM can re-enable the “old” work profile behavior, having access to the latest version of Android might be a detriment compared to an older version that still at least receives security updates (as I assume the Pixel mentioned here does).
I run LineageOS myself, and while I don’t think this change is enough of a dealbreaker to prevent me from ever updating past LOS20 if this change isn’t addressed somehow in either AOSP or LOS, it will make me less enthusiastic about immediately jumping to LOS21 the moment it’s made available to my device.
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.
What a dumb change. Basically 0 benefit.
