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Android Enterprise work profile does not support wearOS yet
weberda sorry I missed your earlier post around this. I wonder are you able to shared more around your use case here?
Thank you,
Lizzie
Hi Lizzie
Specifically we do have an Android app with wear OS functionality. Our device fleet is using COPE to allow employees personal usage of those devices. If we issue watches to employees using those devices they must install the app on the personal profile to use the watch app on their watches.
We always point out to employees to install corp. apps into the work profile but we would have to advise the same users to install this specific app into the personal profile because of the watch app. If users are not using their smartphone for personal use, they usually don't need to setup a Google account on those devices, we would have to instruct them to register an account, set it up on the smartphone and download the app from Google Play. Which is a very demanding process when it comes to hundreds of users.
Samsungs offers a solution with Knox Manage, but in this case we cannot use the Google ecosystem for syncing data between phone and watch as the watch is in a single use mode. Our app devs would then need to implement their own "sync" infrastructure - which is also not a quick thing to do.
This is really interesting to hear more on weberda. Thanks for sharing. Just to ask further, would you be keen for all of your employees to use this setup, or would this be aimed at a specific group of employees who would be in more 'emergency' type environments?
Currently this is the only wear OS enabled App in our Organisation I am aware of. For this specific App it would be a dedicated group of users ("lone-workers") to enable.
However, we are interested to spread wear OS devices when other use cases come up. For example health awareness apps or indoor navigation (find meeting rooms for example).
