GOS Begginer guide
Hey everyone, I am setting my new (used) pixel 8 with GOS. I read on GOS site a lot,but want clearer understand some things. How to set different profiles- one for private and one for daily use. I understood its possible, right? I read another bothering thing,that GOS use 2 steps authentication- fingerprints and pin to open the phone. I am very against biodata, I never use it. Is it possible to leave only with pin ? Any advice what to apps to install will be greatly appreciated.
double post?
No GOS doesn’t need 2 step authentication. PIN is enough.
Setting profiles is right on the drop down menu (or settings too).
Also depends on your privacy/security model. For instance if you just want pure and strong security, GOS recommends to use Google play with a dummy account to keep your apps up to date with latest patch.
If your model is you want privacy from Google but a bit less security then use aurora store in your main account (note that some apps and notifications might not work well), and then have your Google apps separate (i.e. for banking etc…) if needed in a separate profile from your main profile with Google play services activated.
So start with what your risk model is and then it becomes a bit clearer from there.
You can have multiple accounts on the phone, you can have a private account embedded within a non private account. You can have just a pin, I also don’t use biometric data and I use graphene.