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by djtango 115 days ago
How do you sandbox on mobile? I can't say I love having various apps like wechat on my phone...
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I quite like Shelter [1]. Shelter apps are installed in a separate work profile, which essentially sandboxes it from the rest of your data. It also has a neat feature to automatically disable (freeze) specific apps and seamlessly re-enable them when you launch them through Shelter.

[1] https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter

It seems that the repository has moved to https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter/.
Every app is sandboxed by default.
Secure Folders on Samsung. Multiple user profiles on Pixels/AOSP.
Separate grapheneos accounts for everything does that I believe
I went with a separate non-critical phone when I had to communicate on WeChat.
This is what I do too. If i need to use or test something i don't trust then I use an old phone. All of the phones use crDroid(1) and I have scripts to quickly wipe and reinstall the OS whenever I need a full nuke.

(1) https://crdroid.net/