While there aren’t lots of new options in Android 15, it does provide some helpful additions to your cellphone — and probably the most attention-grabbing is known as “Private Space.” Think of it as a separate app vault that locks away specified apps in your Android machine.
Of course, the principle lockscreen already stops different folks from accessing your cellphone, however Private Space places an additional barrier in place. The thought is that if you happen to lend somebody your machine to make a name or have a look at a photograph, they gained’t by accident (or intentionally) stumble into one thing they shouldn’t. It’s additionally an additional security web in case your cellphone is misplaced or stolen whereas it’s unlocked.
I attempted the characteristic on a Pixel 8 cellphone operating Android 15. Here’s the way it works.
Now, everytime you wish to go to your non-public area, simply scroll to the underside of the app drawer, faucet on the padlock icon, and authenticate (utilizing both a biometric technique like fingerprint recognition, or a PIN).
You can’t drag apps out and in of your non-public area — it’s important to set up them. Think of it nearly like a totally totally different Android machine. When you’re inside the area, faucet the Install button so as to add new apps, and long-press on an app icon and select Uninstall to take away them.
You can obtain notifications from apps within the non-public area, however solely when it’s unlocked. To use the identical instance as I used above, it’s successfully like a separate machine, and when the area is locked, it’s such as you’ve turned off that machine. For this motive, Google doesn’t advocate utilizing it to retailer apps which may have to ship you essential data.
Once you’ve unlocked your non-public area, it stays open on the app drawer till you lock it once more through the Lock button. You also can have the area lock robotically in sure conditions: this and different choices might be configured by tapping on the gear icon within the non-public area window.
Note which you could’t switch your non-public area to a brand new cellphone. The commonplace Android-to-Android setup course of gained’t embody any non-public area apps. You’ll have to start out the non-public area once more from scratch, although you’ll be able to register with the identical Google account you used for the non-public area on the older cellphone, which can restore your knowledge in apps equivalent to Gmail and Google Keep.
