5 unique ways I use Android 15s private rooms that are not for porn or cheating

When Android 15 landed with private space in toweveryone – me included – blinked on the screen and nodded, to know exact What the new feature will be used for. I will not immerse myself in your or my private business; It’s not exactly my jam. But when I activated private space on Pixel 9 Pro (it’s a Pixel exclusive for now), I realized it’s a very powerful and unique addition to my Android phone that allows me to do things I couldn’t do before.

Over time, I have come across five different use cases for private space that make it important to me because of security, privacy, distraction management or convenience. If you are not familiar with the feature, check out How to activate and use private spaceAnd follow me as I explain how I personally use it.

If my Android -Phone Falling in the hands of a thief, especially if they manage to snap it from me when it is unlocked, or if they somehow steal my PIN code, I don’t want them to have access to my most sensitive apps . Hiding Economic apps Under private space, and to make sure it is also hidden private room, adds a layer with certainty. This ensures that thieves or curious people either do not see these apps at all or cannot access them because they are locked behind another pin code. (Google has a disclaimer about Malicious apps or ADB can detect private appsBut I still think it’s worth it to be a team to deter little thieves.)

However, I leave a bank app in the main app – usually the one with the smallest account and no credit card access. It’s usually my daily account. The other apps often live in my private room, although I have had to make peace with the fact that I never receive any notifications from them because of the restriction of function. It is usually okay, except for French bank apps, which always require me to validate any online payment by going through the app and agreeing. Since I do not get any notifications, I have to manually unlock private space, open the app and then join the payment pop-up, but it is a small price to pay for extra security.

I have also tried to add the apps to My smart lock and safety system In private room to prevent someone from opening my front door or disarmed my alarm, but the problem is that I definitely depend on getting notifications from these apps. One solution would be to create two users with different permits – a visible in my app drawer with limited powers and a hidden in private space with administrative privileges – but I have not been able to call in these permits exactly to my taste. So far, these apps remain on my most important applist.

I also tried to hide 1Password, my password processingTo keep password away from prying eyes, but I noticed that I am very dependent on it as an autofill solution, and I cannot use it if it is locked in private. Checking the login details manually each time was very impractical. I know that the use of two different password managers will bypass it, but it is a very excessive solution for me, for now.

Alerts are not the only thing that private space stops. The function mainly sandboxes and quarantine apps in a separate environment without access to my contacts, calendar, files, photos or anything else on my phone. And it is absolutely perfect when i want to use an app that I don’t quite trust.

Sometimes there is an app from a developer I don’t know, sometimes it’s a random app I briefly test and will delete later and sometimes it’s just Twitter X. Whatever the cause, if there is an app, I’m not so sure or want to stay away from the rest of my phone, then private space is where I will install it. In this way, I know that I give it less space to roam and less data to Siphon by default. In addition, when private space is locked, potentially problematic apps cannot perform any background actions, use any of the phone’s sensors or track me on other apps. Private space keeps them off and offline, and I love it.

I have four Google accounts, three of which use daily (personal, work and shared with my husband). The fourth is an old shared story that my husband and I created on a trip to Austria when we still stayed in Lebanon. It was meant to help us access Google features and apps available in the EU, but not in a Lebanese account. Since then, we have moved to France and created a shared French account, so this fourth account is no longer important. But it still has one thing or two that we care about and that we were unable to migrate or were too lazy to migrate.

Since I rarely use this account, I do not want it to be installed on my phone and disappear each account picker and account switch menu. I just want to access some things sometimes a year. Previously, I got access to it from the browser sometimes or added it to my phone and remove it, but no longer. Now, that’s the account I’m tying to check it out.

If I could quarantine all my apps I would, but for now, Instagram and threads Had to do. Keeping them locked means that I am not tempted to open them when I see that icon in my app drawer. Without alerts and no background updates, they have no way of disturbing me.

I have tried to put a time limit on apps with digital well -being, but it didn’t do much, and I always ended up removing the app when the timer hit. With private space, I feel that I am less likely to open the app because it is hidden away from my eyes. Out of sight, out of mind, as the saying says.

There is a million and one reason you need to have two instances of the same app and the sad part is that stock Android Does not allow this when other leather offers it. With private space, however, we have a solution that allows us to create a different and independent occurrence of an app on a pixel phone.

I think this is very useful in apps that do not allow me to have multiple accounts logged in at the same time. AmazonFor example, a multi -step process requires to allow me to switch from my French account to my American, German, Spanish or Italian. And since some goods are sometimes severely impaired in other countries, but not in France, I just want quick access to these countries’ stores without messing with my main account. Therefore, I use a secondary instance of Amazon to check prices and order goods from other countries.

I also have two Spotify Accounts in different places that are useful when I come across geo-limited music. Instead of logging out and in again, I can only check my other account, see if it is available there, and decide to go through some extra braces to listen to that music or not. It is a very limited case, but it is useful once or twice.

There are also other apps where I have both a personal account and a joint with my husband. Booking.com, GetYourguide, Chatgpt and Uber Are some of those who come to the brain and being able to have both accounts logged in on the same phone is a time -saving.

This is where my journey with private space ends for now. I know that for many it is a practical way to hide their dirtiest secrets, but I really appreciate the function of its enormous potential. I just hope to see that it’s going to stock Android and stop being a pixel-exclusive feature.