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  "path": "/t/remove-shelter/21658?page=2#post_35",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T16:32:13.000Z",
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  "textContent": "## Defense of Work Profiles\n\n  1. Work profiles can be scheduled, not private spaces yet.\n\n  2. GrapheneOS acknowledges work profile use-cases:\n\n> The remaining use case of a work profile for now is that you can’t have more than 1 Private Space so you can continue using a work profile as a 2nd poor man’s Private Space.\n\n> We look forward to simply being able to tell people not to use work profiles for personal use but we can’t yet because it’s useful having 2 nested profiles rather than 1.\n\n  3. GrapheneOS would prefer to replace work profiles and secondary user profiles with multiple private spaces, but (very importantly) they have not done so yet:\n\n> In the future, support for having multiple Private Spaces would largely replace 1 person using multiple secondary users.\n\n  4. Work profiles use the same framework [2] as private spaces and secondary profiles, just with customizable isolation, which is a feature for many, not an antifeature.\n\n  5. I am citing GrapheneOS frequently, but it is important to remember that GrapheneOS users represent a minority of our readers, and our Android recommendations are general purpose.\n\n     * My personal belief is that we don’t say that Pixels are the _only_ acceptable Android devices to **use**. I think they are the only devices you should **buy** , but that is a totally different question.\n\n\n\nUntil private spaces have a _reasonable_ quantity limit I think we should not remove work profile tools. It is important to continue recommending Shelter unless a better alternative which achieves the same functionality (secondary user profiles do not) is found, because it serves a purpose many people demand, and Island and Insular are worse.\n\n## Defense of Shelter\n\nToday I was looking and Shelter remains actively maintained. The development repo has already increased the target SDK version to 35, but they have not published a tagged release so the version of F-Droid is still 34 (Android 14).\n\nI don’t think this is a mistake, however, as Android 14 remains maintained with security updates, it is up to the global current May 1 security patch level.\n\n**This meets Google Play’s current target SDK requirement.**\n\nI see no reason to update an app like this more than once a year if no security issues are discovered with it. It is feature-complete because all it does is basically enable a flag that is built in to AOSP, AOSP obviously maintains the actual work profile code.\n\nIn the absence of issues (security or otherwise) with the app code itself, I think the only obligation is to update yearly to bump the SDK level, which Shelter does.",
  "title": "Remove Shelter"
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