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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md index e733c7f..29b31a2 100644 --- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md +++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md @@ -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 (ยง9.13), 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`, diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 3047b3f..e0c29da 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -387,6 +387,10 @@ that matters to you. On the Android application, **Phone โ Android Sync** in the side menu backs up your phone's photos, contacts and text messages to a group. +Only your **personal profile** is backed up. If your phone has a work profile, +nothing in it is sent, and MeshBay installed inside the work profile offers no +backup at all. + **Where backups go** is chosen once, at the top of the page, for every kind: - **Only a group you own and are the only member of** can receive them: your |