I don’t believe it requires a Google account.

I just used it on grapheneos, it does recommend you use a separate Google account for the private space, but I don’t have Google account on the phone, I was able to create a private space without any issue.

This feels very much like a second profile, like a workspace. So now you can have three profiles on your main phone login. Normal, private, work.

That’s nice. I would have liked it if the lock button wasn’t there, better to not reveal it at all… Upon checking the settings, there is a hide option. So yeah this is great

I hid my private space, and now I can’t unhide it. I have to go through settings to show it again. Supposedly you should be able to open it by searching for “private space”. Might be a GOS bug.

This is perfect for banking apps, password managers, anything that you don’t need to get notifications from

You don’t need a Google account to use either Private or Work space, and Google recommends using an alternative account to your main one.

You need the G account to be able to install apps from Play Store, I don’t believe the private space itself requires it.

Not sure if there’s some Play “integrity check” on stock ROMs, but on GOS I was able to create the private space and download&install F-droid or other APKs just fine, without a Google account.

Oh for fucks sake - Google!

Seriously??

Hypocrisy at its finest.

But then again, after the 2 seconds of rant, that was expected.

Android is getting more and more “private” while all data is tunneled to Google itself. They are just liquidating the competition.