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If you are being mugged or phone is stolen, deleting specific apps won’t do much.
A government agency looks at parsed stored data, not currently installed apps.
Handing your phone over at a border, they also use data tools, not look at installed app names or something.
The apps still exist on your disk, an extraction tool like Cellebrite can grab them AFAIK.
I am struggling to think of a place where this is genuinely useful as opposed to a restart or Graphene duress code. If they are already in your phone, deleting apps won’t do much.
Wouldn’t just using a work profile be better? Then just log into the work profile with the apps you need hidden and only show the abusive partner the standard user profile?
(I haven’t researched it, but it seems like that would be much more effective)
What is the usecase for this?
If you are being mugged or phone is stolen, deleting specific apps won’t do much.
A government agency looks at parsed stored data, not currently installed apps.
Handing your phone over at a border, they also use data tools, not look at installed app names or something.
The apps still exist on your disk, an extraction tool like Cellebrite can grab them AFAIK.
I am struggling to think of a place where this is genuinely useful as opposed to a restart or Graphene duress code. If they are already in your phone, deleting apps won’t do much.
A vulnerable person trying to get out of an abusive relationship.
Wouldn’t just using a work profile be better? Then just log into the work profile with the apps you need hidden and only show the abusive partner the standard user profile?
(I haven’t researched it, but it seems like that would be much more effective)
A young LGBTQ person with strict religious parents.
A person getting treatment for addiction.