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@@ -3349,6 +3349,15 @@ where `platform.phoneSync` exists. Settings holds what the account prefers on
every client; this page holds what one phone sends: photos, contacts (§9.13),
and the kinds to come (messages, calendar, files).
+**The personal profile only.** Every backup is of the phone's personal
+profile, never of a work profile: a copy of the application installed inside
+a work profile is offered none of them (`Profiles.kt`; the bridge objects are
+absent, so the page shows no Android Sync). In the personal profile each
+source reads that profile alone, since MediaStore and the contacts, SMS and
+calendar providers answer for the profile they are asked from; none of the
+cross-profile `ENTERPRISE_*` URIs is used. An account added to the personal
+profile is part of it, whatever its use.
+
**One destination for every kind.** The top of the page chooses it once: a
group and one of its writable folders (`Destination.kt`, `sync-destination.js`).
Each kind goes into its own folder under it, `<folder>/<account>-photos`,