Sandboxing applications

Yes, I use “Shelter” downloaded from F-Droid for a few apps I don’t want continually running in the background and to keep them away from my personal data.

It will set up your “work profile” on your phone. In Shelter, it shows “Main” (normal apps). I then tap “Aurora Store” and “Clone to Shelter”, and launch that version to then install other apps in Shelter. All the apps I add to Shelter (that I want to disable when not using them) I then tap and tick “Auto Freeze”. Then I also select “Create Unfreeze and/or Launch Shortcut” which adds a launcher to that app on my home screen. Then if you click “Freeze” the actual app will be force stopped and removed from you app menu, but tapping that “Launch icon” will unfreeze and launch it again. Finally, in Shelter I tap “3 dots > Create Batch Freeze Shortcut” and put that on my home screen. Tapping that will freeze all apps that you set to auto-freeze at once.

Once all this is set up, you don’t need to open shelter itself to launch or freeze the apps, the shortcuts to launch and “auto freeze all apps” will be sufficient.

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