Sandbox #1: Sep 2025
Multiple user profiles for the iPhone.
Phones are cluttered. Work, personal, and side projects collide. What if iPhones had separate profiles to keep everything organized?
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Phones are cluttered. Work, personal, and side projects collide. What if iPhones had separate profiles to keep everything organized?
At Hard Rock International, our security team restricted access from personal devices; meaning no Slack, Teams, or work email on my phone. Suddenly, I found myself juggling two worlds: work and personal.
— Most professionals blend work, side projects, and personal life on one phone.
— Notifications, apps, and accounts become a cluttered, context-switching mess.
— Some resort to carrying two phones just to separate focus and data.
— Well, Apple benefits from selling more iPhones to those who need 2, what's in it for them?
— Swipe to your Work Mode and instantly enter a separate environment with its own apps, contacts, and messages.
— Switch to Personal Mode and everything changes: clean, focused, yours.
— Each profile could have its own Apple ID sandbox, iCloud partition, and notification settings.
— Apple could introduce a subscription model allowing users to pay for additional profiles on their iPhone.
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Would multi-profile phones make life simpler and more secure, or would it introduce new layers of complexity for the average user?