Comment on Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoIs it though? I have three profiles on my phone:
- main - all my normal apps; no Google Play whatsoever
- work - work apps; Google Play services running
- google - Google stuff (like Google Maps and whatnot); Google Play services running
This is on GrapheneOS, and they basically just ship AOSP with some patches on top.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Congrats. You just volunteered to teach all the boomers (and the zoomers who can’t do anything that isn’t google docs) how to set all that up and maintain it
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Eh, it’s not too bad:
Then to switch, there will be a new icon next to the Settings icon when you swipe down. Tap that and select the profile you want.
I use GrapheneOS, which ships w/o Google Play by default (installation process is a little trickier, but still easy), but most phones won’t have an option to uninstall Google Play since it’s a default system app. But if have managed to install GrapheneOS, setting up a profile to quarantine your Google Play apps is pretty easy.