5 unique ways of ways that I use the private space of Android 15 which is not for porn or cheating

When Android 15 landed with a private space in a trailer, everyone – including me – wink at their screen and hosted their heads, knowing how Exactly For which this new feature would be used. I will not dive into your business or my private business; It’s not exactly my jam. But when I activated the private space on my pixel 9 pro (it is an exclusivity of pixels for the moment), I realized that it is a very powerful and unique addition to my Android phone that allows me To do things that I couldn’t before.

Over time, I met five different use cases for the private space which makes it essential due to security, confidentiality, distraction or convenience management. If you are not familiar with the functionality, see how to activate and use the private space, then follow me while I explain how I personally use it.

If my Android phone falls into the hands of a thief, especially if they manage to tear it away when it is unlocked or if they somehow fly my PIN code, I don’t want them to have access to My most sensitive applications. Concealment financial applications In private space, and ensure that the private space itself is also hidden, adds an additional safety layer. This guarantees that thieves or whipping people do not see these applications at all or cannot access them because they are locked behind a different PIN code. (Google has a non-liability clause Malicious or bad applications to detect private applicationsBut I always think it is worth being one more layer to dissuade small thieves.)

However, I leave a bank application in the main application drawer – generally the one with the smallest account and without access by credit card. It is generally my daily account. Other applications often live in my private space, even if I had to make peace with the fact that I never receive any notifications of them because of the limitation of functionality. This is generally very good, with the exception of French banking applications, which always forced me to validate any online payment by browsing the application and accepting. As I do not receive any notification, I must manually unlock the private space, open the application, then accept the payment pop-up, but it is a small price to pay for additional security.

I also tried to put the applications to My intelligent locking system and safety In the private space to prevent anyone from opening my front door or disarming my alarm, but the problem is that I certainly count on the notifications of these applications. A bypass solution would be to create two users with different authorizations – a visible in my application drawer with limited powers and a hidden in private space with administration privileges – but I could not compose these authorizations exactly for my taste. So for the moment, these applications remain in my list of main applications.

I also tried to hide 1 password, my Password managerTo keep all the passwords from the prying eyes, but I noticed that I was counting strongly as an automatic solution and I cannot use it if it is locked in private. Manually check the connection details each time was very annoying. I know that the use of two different password managers would go around this, but it is a very exaggerated solution for me, for the moment.

Notifications are not the only thing the private space stops. The functionality is essentially sandboxes and quarantine applications in a separate environment without access to my contacts, calendar, files, photos or anything else on my phone. And it’s absolutely perfect when I want to use An application in which I do not trust entirely.

Sometimes it is an application of a developer that I do not know, sometimes it is a random application that I test briefly and that I want to delete later, and sometimes, it’s just Twitter X. No matter the reason, if there is an application, I am not sure or that I want to get away from the rest of my phone, then the private space is the place where I will install it. In this way, I know that I give it less space to wander and less data to siphon by default. In addition, when the private space is locked, potentially problematic applications cannot do any action in the background, use one of the sensors of my phone or follow me on other applications. The private space keeps them outside and offline, and I love it.

I have four Google accounts, including three that I use daily (staff, work and shared with my husband). The fourth is an old shared story that my husband and I created during a trip to Austria when we still live in Lebanon. It was intended to help us access the features of Google and the applications available in the EU but not on a Lebanese account. Since then, we have moved to France and created a shared French account, so this fourth account is not more essential. But he still has one thing or two that we care and that we could not migrate or were too lazy to migrate.

As I rarely use this account, I do not want it to be installed on my phone, throws each account selector and account menu. I just want to access certain things several times a year. Previously, I accessed it from the browser sometimes or added it to my phone and then delete it, but no longer now. Now, this is the account that I associate with my private space account and I can just let it be, intact, for weeks, then when I need to check it, I unlock the private and open gmail space, Gmail, Chrome, Keep or Maps to check it.

If I could in quarantine all my applications, I would do it, but for the moment, Instagram and son should do. Keeping them locked up means that I am not tempted to open them when I see this icon in my application drawer. Without notifications or backdress updates, they have no way of bothering me either.

I tried to put a restriction of time on applications with digital well-being, but it did not do much, and I always ended up the application implementations once the timer has struck . With a private space, I find that I am less inclined to open the application because it is hidden in my eyes. Out of sight, out of mind, as the proverb says.

There is a million and a reason why you must have two instances of the same application, and the sad party is that Android does not allow it when other skins offer it. With a private space, however, we have a bypass solution that allows us to create a second independent body of an application on a pixel phone.

I find that this is very useful in applications that do not allow me to have several connected accounts at the same time. AmazonFor example, requires a process in several stages to allow me to go from my French account to my United States, German, Spanish or Italian. And as some articles are sometimes strongly updated in other countries but not in France, I just want quick access to stores in these countries without playing with my main account. This is why I use a secondary instance of Amazon to check the prices and order articles from other countries.

I also have two Spotify Accounts in different places that are useful when I meet geo-restricted music. Instead of disconnecting again, I can simply check my second account, see if it is available there, then decide if it is worth going through additional hoops to listen to this music or not. This is a very limited case of use, but it is useful once or twice.

There are also other applications where I have both a personal account and a joint account with my husband. Booking.com, Gotyourguide, Chatppt and Uber Are some of those who come to mind, and be able to have the two connected accounts on the same phone is a time saving.

This is where my trip with private space ends for the moment. I know that for many, it is a practical way to hide their dirty secrets, but I really appreciate the functionality for its immense potential. I just hope to see it coming in Android stock and stop being an exclusive feature of pixels.