I was not aware of this until today. People use work profiles on Android to isolate their more privacy invasive apps. If you want those apps to be tunnelled through a VPN, you would have to install the VPN application you use on your work profile separately and turn it on separately in your work profile.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    But if this features are so usefull why aren’t they merged to the AOSP

    Me every time I realize the ability to completely block network usage for an app is not Stock Android

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      1 year ago

      It’s moments like these that make me realize oh Android is built primarily as a advertisement tool