Re: phone migration

Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

Chris wrote on Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:46:44 -0000 (UTC) :
 

The primitive toy iPhone doesn't have any fundamental capability to set up
a normally separate work & personal profile (enhances security & privacy).

 
Interestingly had a random discussion about this with my team last week and
the android setup sounds like a nightmare. You have to download all apps
you need in both environments twice - wasting storage and any data limits -
and configure them separately but then you don't get any notifications from
the other profile when using your phone e.g. MFA or messages.

 
Hi Chris,
 
Thanks for letting me (and the rest of us) know this, as I set up the
Work/Personal profile to help someone on the ng & haven't tested it much.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/TY04xZwF/work-user-profile.jpg>
 

You're constantly having to remember to switch profile to ensure you get
calendar or message notifications from the different profiles.

 
If "constantly" you mean an extra page comes up with "Work/Personal"
choices (as you can see in my previous screenshot setting app defaults),
then I agree that there is a "chance" that there's an extra page.

I'm only referring to what android-owning members in my team reported. If
they're on their personal profile they don't get calendar or meeting
notifications from the work profile. Which, thinking about it, makes sense
if it's simply copying the linux user system. If Alice is logged in she
doesn't, and shouldn't, get messages relating to Bob.

Shame it's not a smarter solution.

Notice in my screenshot that the default is "Personal".

1. You go to App defaults in settings
2. You have two sets of App Defaults (Work & Personal)
3. My default is "Personal" so there's no extra steps for me to do
 

If you truly want a separation, it's better to get separate phones IYAM.

 
While that's good advice, the point I was making was that iOS is designed
as a toy operating system which is incapable of doing what Android does.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's automatically the
right thing to do.