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xatttyesterday at 9:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Multiuser is already baked in iOS-adjacent operating systems. tvOS offers user profiles on power on.


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troadtoday at 2:31 AM

Perhaps someone who's more versed in Apple tech can weigh in, but my limited understanding is that tvOS' users are mostly an illusion - the current user is just a flag exposed to running apps, and each app decides on its own what (if anything) they do with that information. There's no system-level separation of data or permissions for different users.

(In my experience, most non-Apple apps just seem to ignore user profiles on the Apple TV, and either behave as single-user apps, or have their own totally unrelated user profiles.)

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janderson215yesterday at 10:15 PM

I’m pretty sure iPadOS supports multiple profiles on Classroom[0] devices.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/education/k12/teaching-tools/

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