The QPR2 Beta 2 version of Android 14 shows us what the Private Space functionality will look like to hide its applications. There is little chance that it will be deployed in 2023, however.
Your Android smartphone is packed with applications of all kinds. Some that you use on a daily basis, others that you use occasionally and a few that you would not like to show to the people around you. For the latter case, there are a good number of “safe” type apps for shelter from prying eyes. Manufacturers like Samsung Or OnePlus even integrate this functionality directly into their overlay. And if Android offered this natively?
Google already working there. In the first QPR2 beta of Android 14, we could spot mentions of a Private Space to create a kind of second profile on your smartphone. A few weeks later, it becomes more precise and reveals its supposed functioning in the second QPR2 beta. Contrary to what we imagined at first glance, it would only be a matter of being able to hide applications there. No data like photos or other sensitive documents, at least from what we can see.
The Private Space hides the applications of your choice and makes them completely disappear from the mobile
By default, the Private Space icon will be at the very bottom of your application launcher. It will of course be possible not to display it for more discretion from the settings of Security & confidentiality. If you do this, you will have to type Private space in the launcher’s search bar to see it again while you access it. Locking is done either with the same PIN code, the same pattern or the same fingerprint used to unlock your smartphone, or with another method defined by you.
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The advantage of integrating such a function directly into the Android system is that it will not simply make your hidden applications disappear from the launcher. As long as the Private Space is locked, no trace of what is there can be foundnot even in the mobile settings or the Authorization Manager For example. As it stands, the functionality is still in the testing phase. There is little chance that we will be able to enjoy it soon, with some even saying that it will be ready for Android 15not before.
Source: 9to5Google