Turn This On When Giving Your Phone to Someone Else: How to Use Hidden App Space on Android?

When you give your phone to someone else, you may not want some of your applications or personal information to be visible.

available in current versions of Android Private Space feature allows you to separate specific apps from the main app screen and protect them with a separate lock.

According to Google's current Android help documentation, Custom Field, Android 15 and above devices. However, the feature may not be available on devices that have been disabled by the manufacturer or corporate management.

What is a Custom Field?

You can think of Private Space as a separate digital section on the phone.

Here:

• Banking applications
• Special photo apps
• Messaging apps
• Business applications
• Applications with personal accounts

downloadable.

When the area is locked, the applications in it are hidden from the main application list.

How to create a Custom Field?

If your Android device supports:

1. Settings application.
2. Security and privacy.
3. Private Area.
4. Follow the installation steps.
5. Create a separate lock for the Private Field.

Google also recommends using a separate Google account within the Private Domain whenever possible. The reason for this is to facilitate the separation of data such as notifications and files in the private area from the main area.

How to upload application to Private Area?

There are two methods.

Method 1

1. Open the applications list.
2. Long press the app you want to move.
3. Upload to Private Area.

There is an important detail here:

A new instance of the application is installed in the Custom Area. The application in the main domain is not automatically moved.

Method 2

1. Open Private Area.
2. + Download.
3. Install the app from Play Store.

How to hide Private Area?

The real interesting feature is here.

According to Google, apps can be hidden from the main app list when Private Space is locked.

For this:

1. Private Area section.
2. Enter Custom Area settings.
3. Hide Private Area when locked.
4. Lock area.

From now on, Private Area will be hidden from the application list.

Do apps work when Private Space is locked?

No.

According to Google's documentation, when the Private Area is locked, the applications in it are stopped.

Therefore:

• Applications that need to run constantly in the background
• Applications that need constant notification
• Applications that track location in the background

.

Private Area completely invisible?

No.

This feature “a completely unnoticeable casing inside the phone”.

Google states that in some cases, the existence of Private Space can be detected by people connecting the device to the computer, some applications or system logs.

What happens if the Custom Area is deleted?

There is a very important warning here.

According to Google, when the Private Area is deleted, the applications in it and the data on the device can be deleted without backup. Device data within the Private Area may not be restored from a normal device backup.

Therefore, be sure to check important data before deleting it.