📱 Android - Setup Parallel Apps on OnePlus

Last updated on : 2021-06-11

Instructions

What you should know

  1. The Parallel Apps feature allows you flexibility to create two separate accounts for the same messaging App.
  2. This only allows you to clone apps which are supported by this feature - Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp are supported, but many others are not.

What you should prepare

  1. Make sure you update your Oneplus 5 or above to Android 10.0 or above. The parallel space is only accessible in the Android Oreo (10) and later OS as part of the update.

What you should do

1. Add app to Parallel Apps

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Tap "Utilities"
  3. Tap "Parallel Apps"

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  1. For all the apps you want to open as Parallel Apps, toggle them in the list view.

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After cloning the app you will see two versions of the same app one with a golden circle icon and the other will remain the same in the standard icon, as shown in the image above.

The former is the new app and needs to be setup again, the latter can be used as normal.

2. Change the app icon

This is optional, but consider following the 📱 Android - Change the Name and Icon of your Apps instructions to change the secondary app shortcut's icon and name so it will be more difficult to spot.

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