How to participate the new Private Space feature in Android 15

While there aren’t a lot of new features in Android 15, it does give some beneficial includeitions for your phone — and one of the most fascinating is called “Private Space.” Think of it as a split app vault that locks away specified apps on your Android device.

Of course, the main lockscreen already stops other people from accessing your phone, but Private Space puts an extra barrier in place. The idea is that if you lfinish someone your device to originate a call or see at a pboilingo, they won’t accidenhighy (or defreely) stumble into someskinnyg they shouldn’t. It’s also an extra protectedty net if your phone is lost or stolen while it’s unlocked.

I tried the feature on a Pixel 8 phone running Android 15. Here’s how it labors.

Now, whenever you want to go to your personal space, fair scroll to the bottom of the app drawer, tap on the padlock icon, and authenticate (using either a biometric method enjoy fingerprint recognition, or a PIN).

You can’t drag apps in and out of your personal space — you have to inshigh them. Think of it almost enjoy a finishly contrastent Android device. When you’re wiskinny the space, tap the Inshigh button to include new apps, and lengthy-press on an app icon and select Uninshigh to erase them.

You can get notifications from apps in the personal space, but only when it’s unlocked. To participate the same example as I participated above, it’s effectively enjoy a split device, and when the space is locked, it’s enjoy you’ve turned off that device. For this reason, Google doesn’t recommfinish using it to store apps that might insist to sfinish you critical adviseation. 

Once you’ve unlocked your personal space, it stays uncover on the app drawer until you lock it aget via the Lock button. You can also have the space lock automaticassociate in certain situations: this and other selections can be configured by tapping on the gear icon in the personal space triumphdow.

Note that you can’t transfer your personal space to a new phone. The standard Android-to-Android setup process won’t include any personal space apps. You’ll have to commence the personal space aget from scratch, though you can sign in with the same Google account you participated for the personal space on the elderlyer phone, which will revamp your data in apps such as Gmail and Google Keep.