Re: How to delete Google Discover from both your user & work profile

On 21/03/2025 04:06, Marion wrote:

In that thread, I looked up what "Google Discover" was, since I had never
experienced it in all my years of using non-rooted Android phones. It
turned out I had disabled it long ago for "user 0" but not for "user 11".
 I didn't even know I had a "user 0" and a "user 11" on my phone.
Did you know that?

No, but then I know very little about Android other than a bit of searching reveals.
It appears that "users" in Android seem to have been around for years. See here, referring to "user 10" and "user 11":
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19272015/android-user-profile-questions>
By the way, "user 10" is still around as a (the?) "work profile". Why user 10 /and/ user 11? I see from <https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en#zippy=%2Cdoes-my-device-have-a-work-profile> that a work profile applies to Android 5 and later. Were work profiles for commercial organisations that had a single mobile phone for multiple users?
As you have a pretty good knowledge of Android, how has this remained hidden from you? And, for that matter, "Velvet" - see your post downthread! According to this old thread <https://xdaforums.com/t/q-what-is-velvet-apk.2372735/> there is a difference of opinion as to what Velvet.apk is - Google's "search app"- or something else. If it's really 277MB in size now as you mentioned, it must be doing rather a lot of "something else"... But what? Unfortunately the word "velvet" appears in many different things related to Android and/or Google, and I couldn't tie down the search terms enough to turn up anything other than that xdaforums page. :-(
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Jeff