Google is reportedly engaged on a ‘Private Space‘ function that may add assist for hiding apps securely on Android smartphones. Expected to arrive in an upcoming model of the corporate’s cellular working system, the function is anticipated to enable customers to conceal apps and recordsdata from different customers safely. Samsung has provided the same function — Secure Folder — for the previous six years. Google including native assist with Private Space will enable different telephone makers to provide the identical performance on their telephones.
Development of the function was beforehand noticed by Mishaal Rahman on the primary beta for the upcoming Android 14 QPR2 launch, and the second beta model incorporates much more particulars in regards to the function. In an Android Police report, Rahman states that the function will be noticed within the newest beta model, below the Security & privateness choice within the settings app.
Currently in growth, the function permits Android customers to create a brand new Android person profile on the telephone that may be locked with a person’s biometrics or utilizing their password or PIN. Users who’ve tried Android’s ‘Work Profile’ function could be aware of this performance.
Notably, Android will conceal not solely the presence of those apps but additionally the contents of their notifications as soon as the profile is locked. This can turn out to be useful in order for you to hand your telephone over to a member of the family, whereas stopping entry to sure apps or different content material.
According to Rahman, Google can be creating the flexibility to present these apps solely when looking for the phrases “private space” within the search bar. This would stop different customers from figuring out whether or not you will have enabled the Private Space function within the first place.
Samsung has provided assist for the identical performance within the type of Secure Folder on its smartphones since 2017. This function additionally creates a separate profile, permitting customers to entry a separate set of contacts, recordsdata, images and apps in an remoted container that may be protected utilizing a password, PIN or their biometrics.
The growth of the Private Space function, nevertheless, means that Google will finally enable smartphone makers to provide assist for Samsung’s Secure Folder performance on their handsets. Rahman factors out that the function may make its approach to Android 15, including that he couldn’t allow all Private Space options on the most recent beta as it’s nonetheless in growth.
