SkieCan Skie use an Android work profile instead of full device control?
Not yet. Skie manages the whole device as the Android device owner, and the current product does not offer a work profile that sits beside personal apps. It also blocks creating work, clone or private profiles on managed devices. The team is working on more options, with no dates.
A work profile is an Android feature that creates a separate space on a personal phone for company apps and data. The company manages that space only, and the rest of the phone stays personal. Several general-purpose MDM products offer it, including Microsoft Intune, Hexnode and Scalefusion.
Skie does not. It is built for devices that an organisation hands out, where the organisation wants the device itself to do a defined job. That is device-owner mode, and the whole device follows the policy. Skie also blocks the creation of work profiles, clone profiles on Android 14 and newer and private profiles on Android 15 and newer on managed devices, because a second profile could be used to get around the rules.
So if you want staff to keep personal apps and add company apps next to them, Skie is not the right tool today. What it can do is manage a company-issued device that has only company apps. The company-owned, personally-enabled style, where a company phone also carries a few personal apps, can be handled by adding specific apps to the group list.
If a work profile is a hard requirement, choose a product that offers it and review its privacy model with your staff. If you want a full-control phone for field jobs, shop tablets or driver devices, Skie fits.
We say 'not yet' because the team keeps adding features, but we do not give dates or promises.