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Unrelated. Have you considered using a work profile?
That way you can have two factor authentication when unlocking your phone. You could use a PIN code for the main unlock, and a biometric for apps in the work profile. That way you would have to have both something you are, and something you know.
How do you lock your work profile?
Settings, security, more security settings:
Under work profile and security:
Disable - use one lock for work profile and device screen
Configure - work profile lock, use a different code, only needed at boot time.
Enroll finger prints for biometric unlock.
Thanks, I use Workprofile for crap apps, but if I wouldnt need those this would be a good idea!
You could put the crap apps in the main profile, and then the important apps in the work profile. Then the important apps would have two factor
I am not really leaving my device locked haha, or if, then I would also always have the work profile locked. Also I dont trust Androids init system, apps just randomly run in the background and there still is no way to completely prevent that. So I keep them in the work profile
On Grapheneos I've been using the disable app option aggressively, to have installed apps that only run when I need them. I do have to enable them from the app settings, which is a little annoying but the hotel booking app doesn't need to be running all the time.
They disappear from launchers which is very bad UX
I see why they did it. If you disable Google News, you don't want to see it in your launcher. So that makes sense for the original ASOP developers
I think now, because disabling is a first-class feature for any app, you should be able to indicate you want to still see it in the launcher even though it's disabled.