Forum Discussion
Does anyone allow multiple users on their Androids?
Shared devices might be migrating more to individual /named devices in the healthcare setting where a relatively more affordable device like a Zebra HC20 can be issued and also where the data on the devices is arguably a lot more sensitive. Other usecases like education, logistics, retail etc still very much rely on shared devices. Multi-shift 24 operations in warehouses for example very much expect to have the same devices used across multiple users and multiple shifts.
Bluefletch handles the shared device use case on Android fairly well. They have a custom launcher that the end user logs into and then can support various forms of SSO into the individual apps from there. They have permissions that can control what apps an end user has access to depending on their user profile and have scripting to clear out existing sessions across multiple apps in order to provide seamless handoff to the next end user.
SOTI has something similar with their integration of Microsoft Shared Device mode but I believe it is limited to Entra ID accounts still.
Interesting. It's good to know that other EMMs are doing a better job than Microsoft. Like so many other institutions, my org uses Intune because it comes for free with our M365 licenses and we already use it to manage Windows devices. There's a lot of things I don't like about it and I think the Managed Home Screen is one of them. I would love to know their reasoning why they didn't implement secondary users with Entra shared mode but I probably won't ever get that answer.
