No need to separate work apps from your personal apps and want to uninstall Work Profile from your Android / Samsung device? Or just want to turn off work app notifications temporarily? You come to the right place.
Firstly, you’d better know the difference between ‘Remove Work Profile‘ and ‘Disable Work Profile‘. And then we will go through the detailed steps on how to disable and remove the work profile. We’ve also attached screenshots and videos to ensure you know well how to make it.
The difference between ‘Remove Work Profile’ and ‘Disable Work Profile’
Removing the work profile from Android will delete all work apps and the data stored in work apps. However, disabling will only stop the work apps from running to ensure there are no work notifications appearing to disturb you, which means disabling won’t delete anything and you can continue to use the Work Profile service by re-enabling.
How to Permanently Delete Work Profile from Android Phone?
If you own an Android device and you don’t want your previous organization or company to control any of the apps on your device, you can completely delete the work profile from your device.
To remove the profile, please follow the steps below. (The method to delete the work profile may be different depending on the brand of your Android device. )
- Open the Settings app on your Android device.
Settings app on Android device - Go to Accounts, and then swipe down to tap Remove work profile.
Account Settings on Android Device - Confirm the removal action by tapping the Delete to completely uninstall the work profile.
Remove work profile on Android device - Typically, this would also uninstall the Device Policy app from your Android device, and all app and app data managed by the work file would be deleted.
And there is a nice YouTube video explaining every step you need to remove the work file.
How to Temporarily Disable Work Profile on Android Device?
Sometimes when you are off work, you may like all notifications of your work apps to be silent. To turn off all notifications, you can disable your work profile temporarily, which allows you to use your own Android device without any interruptions from your work apps.
To turn off Work Profile on an Android device,
- Open the Settings app on your Android device.
- Go to Accounts, and then swipe down to tap Work profile settings.
Android work profile settings
Switch the Work profile toggle off.
What to Do If You Cannot Remove or Disable Work Profile?
If the Android device is owned by your company, your IT department is able to restrict almost any behavior on the device, for example, the IT admin has the right to set a limit for how long the work profile can be disabled.
Therefore, you might not be able to remove or disable the profile. What you can do is contact your IT admin to help you disable the work profile.