Important points
- I ran into a strange issue where notifications from the Private Space app would appear on connected Wear OS devices.
- Some notifications appear with a work profile icon on devices that don't have a work profile set up.
- Google has acknowledged this issue and is currently working on a fix.
The Private Space feature in Android 15 is great. However, you may want to be careful until Google resolves known issues with private spaces. wear an OS.
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How to set up and use private spaces on Android 15
Safely separate work and play
Google recently acknowledged an issue with notifications between Wear OS and Android 15 devices using the Private Spaces feature (via 9to5Google ). Some users are experiencing an issue where notifications from the Private Space app unexpectedly appear publicly on paired Wear OS devices.
This is not how private spaces are supposed to work
Private Space is a kind of secure locker for storing apps you want to keep away from prying eyes. Apps in the private space remain completely isolated, and their notifications are supposed to be limited to the primary Android device. A great place to store your banking, messaging, and dating apps. However, some devices running Android 15 are pushing notifications to connected Wear OS watches.
To further confuse the situation, some of these notifications arrive with a work profile icon for users who don't have a work profile configured on their device. A work profile is typically set up by someone's employer and allows users to switch between personal and work profiles. The work profile and private space features are separate and have no relationship to each other.
Some users reported seeing a work profile tab within the Wear OS app even though they didn't have a work profile set up on their phone. This may be because the new private space is enabled but not optimized to work with other profiles.
Google says it's working on a fix for this issue
Google quickly acknowledged the issue and said it was working on fixes for all of these issues, suggesting they may be related. Google recommends that users either turn off notifications for apps in their private spaces or continue to expect strange notifications to appear in their apps. hardware OS device. Google has not disclosed a schedule for the fix.
