[inwester]

Since the smartphone age, used 2 phones from 2007 to 2018. An iPhone for personal use and a BlackBerry/ Android for work purposes.

Since 2018 - only 1 phone, flagship Samsungs.

eSIM - Main USA line - Verizon
Physical SIM - India number - Vodafone
Work number - an app (Sideline - $99/year) with a 2nd number (US)

So I have 3 numbers on 1 device that does it all.

I hated carrying two devices and will only buy a dual SIM phone in the future. Currently using Samsung Note 20 Ultra.

[Aroy]

I use one phone only. Primarily for calls, social media and shopping apps.

All my financial transactions are carried out on my laptop; I am paranoid on security; so in case of loss of phone, my financials and not compromised.

I did think of having two phones, but find the laptop a better solution.

[cdrajeevkumar]

I’ve been using 2 phones since 2000. Very clear demarcation between personal and official numbers. Earlier both were Nokia 3310 and as time passed I migrated to Android. Currently it’s always iPhone and Android to give me flexibility of both ecosystems ! I recommend 2 phones as it can separate the official from personal calls!

[NiInJa]

Two Phones for me strictly out of necessity and stupidity of iPhone's lack of fingerprint sensor.

Primarily two reasons:
1. I do a lot of bike riding to remote places
2. I have kid who is after my phone all the time

Iphone is kept for office and utilities and no games installed on it, so the kid knows this phone is of no use to him.

Have a Samsung M31 with a fingerprint sensor that I use for navigation, media, and kid for his games and general abuse.

Face-id mostly never works when I am riding my bike wearing helmet (it has a outer side opaque visor and I mostly cover my face with a mask). It is a big pain trying to unlock iphone while riding. The Samsung's fingerprint reader is fast and when mounted on the bike's mobile holder it is easier to unlock. So its super convenient to keep the android phone mounted while the iphone is in my pocket for photography or texting.

I use the M31 for media consumption as well, the iphone 13 surprisingly has lesser brightness and color vibrance compared to this cheap Samsung Phone. Heck, it also has a built in equalizer which works well to tune sounds to my preference. I don't carry the second phone everywhere on a daily basis, except when travelling, riding or going to a place where my kid will need the phone. The second one has only data plan (Jio) and is mostly used for whatsapp calls or places where my primary number (Vi) doesn't work.

[RMN]

Originally Posted by sagarpadaki

I am a single phone user. I just cannot imagine lugging around 2 phones in my pocket.

Same here. I have my S22U as my primary phone and my older Note9 on another network. But I just can't manage 2 phones and the secondary is just kept at home.

Phones today provide quite a bit flexibility on separating out work & office.

[nerdgalore]

I have been using one phone all my life (recently iPhone 11) with work apps installed via company profile. Recently got an iPhone 14 Pro from my company and still have not gotten used to managing two phones. I am not sure if I just use the company phone as my only phone with personal apps installed, does it lead to any privacy concerns? Does the employer track everything on the phone or just a few apps they have installed like Outlook, Slack etc. Any experts on this, please shed some light.

[tsk1979]

Originally Posted by Apex1815

IMHO, I can speak over only one phone at a time, then why to carry Two.

I prefer keeping only single phone with Dual SIM (One Sim personal and other given by my company). One Dual Sim Smart phone suffices my all requirements. Personally I would never be comfortable keeping Two Phones.
(One of my old boss used to carry Three smartphones, God only knows why ?)..

Maybe some people need to have work email on their phone, and are not comfortable giving full access to company IT for the phone used for personal purposes only. with company VPN you give a lot of access to your employer. So maybe that is why they use two phones.

Originally Posted by nerdgalore

I have been using one phone all my life (recently iPhone 11) with work apps installed via company profile. Recently got an iPhone 14 Pro from my company and still have not gotten used to managing two phones. I am not sure if I just use the company phone as my only phone with personal apps installed, does it lead to any privacy concerns? Does the employer track everything on the phone or just a few apps they have installed like Outlook, Slack etc. Any experts on this, please shed some light.

When you install the certificates, they will tell you what all access is being granted. In many cases its just the permission to remote wipe your phone. In other cases they will have access to specific data. But it varies from company to company.

You can go in settings and check it up.
If you are unable to find that info uninstall company profile, reinstall and then when it asks for permissions you will know what all you are giving up

[vb-saan]

Originally Posted by dragonfire

I'd like to know how to do this. Any guide or tutorial that can help me?

Its quite easy, swipe down to the Control Center and start building the routines with the available focus modes, or create an entirely new one that suits your requirements.

A tutorial from Apple Support below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4VSG41nDOo

[nerdgalore]

Originally Posted by tsk1979

When you install the certificates, they will tell you what all access is being granted. In many cases its just the permission to remote wipe your phone. In other cases they will have access to specific data. But it varies from company to company.

You can go in settings and check it up.
If you are unable to find that info uninstall company profile, reinstall and then when it asks for permissions you will know what all you are giving up

Among a lot of other cryptic configs in the work profile, I could find these that make some sense as to what rights the employer has on the device and the applied restrictions. Doesn't seem to be enabling access to personal apps, messages, photos etc. except ability to see app names.

[Sheel]

Have 2 phones, but don't always carry it. It stays in the car, near my PC etc. I look at it every hour or so, but that is it.

Use the second (android) phone for apps which are better optimized for androids or are exclusive to androids (my kid's school app for fees payment as an example) / accessing CCTV footage of home / causal browsing / infrequent apps are loaded on that (online shopping + travel related) & other social media usage (very less use, but still). Have stopped carrying my iPad now.

Though, I almost always prefer to access everything from desktop. Main phone is a 6.1 inch iPhone as it's handy & decently large to be the main phone.

[Fuldagap]

I have been using 3 phones for about 2 years now. Before that it was 4 phones but have managed to come down to 3.

All 3 are synced by at least 1 common Gmail account and all 3 have WhatsApp linked with the same number. The rest follows and makes life extremely simple.

The 2 phones I carry, one is purely for calling anybody, using apps for the purpose of grocery, or any app that is not a banking app.

The other (primary) phone is only for family and close friends for GSM calls and financial transactions, like using apps of the bank, UPI apps etc. I never share the calling number of this phone with anybody except close people. This phone also has hotspot on all the time, through which the other phone takes data. This serves two purposes. It saves the battery of both phones a lot. Because the screen of the primary phone is off most of the times and the data of the other phone is off most of the times. This drastically increases battery backup of both. The reception of data increases a lot too because even if I'm making a whatsapp call through the 2nd phone, the primary one is kept somewhere stationary.

The 3rd phone is kept at home all the time. It serves as a backup for the 2nd phone and does whatever the 2nd phone can do. Have 5 sim cards between the 3 of them and all serve some purpose or the other.

I never have to worry about battery life due to this. All 3 have great battery, camera and specs so it is quite peaceful. Google Fit keeps track of all activities on all the 3 devices and serves me great the whole day tracking the physical activity.

I have never used an iphone and don't intend to do so in the future too. Never bought any phones apart from 2 brands since the days of Nokia 1100/6600/3110.

[Avikbrio]

I found the sweet spot with two phones: Android (2019 Oneplus 7 Pro) and iOS (2020 iPhone 11). The former is my main device.

Why Android:

1. Notification System is far better than iOS.
2. The OS feels zippier because of the reduced animation time compared to iOS
3. The edge to edge screen with no cutouts or pin holes for front camera always makes me happy

Why iOS:
1. For the Video. iPhones are best for videos. Camera is really good too
2. I use an Apple Watch because imo it is the most all rounded smartwatch.
3. Apple Carplay. Vastly superior than Android Auto especially in sound quality.
4. Fast OS updates

[DCEite]

I keep two phones.


My use case is following:

1) One phone is more performance/multimedia oriented with a large screen (6.7 inch). I enjoy watching Youtube, Udemy,Social media apps and playing games on this phone. This phone has good battery backup as well. Its a 5G Phone and I use JIO 5G SA, and this phone, coincidently supports all JIO 5G bands in Delhi-NCR, and I generally get around 400-500 Mbps indoor speeds on Jio 5G.

2) My other phone is more from a professional perspective and something which I carry to work and when outside. The phone has comparatively better Camera (Its a Samsung) but the screen itself is smaller, sufficient for one hand use and easy to keep in pocket (since I use this phone majority of the time, this factor of "good handling" helps). Besides this, I also have configured Company email and MS Teams for official purpose on this phone. This too is a 5G Phone and is on Airtel 5G connection. I get equally good speeds on 5G even indoors on this phone.

Besides above two points, having two phones always helps in failover cases. If at all one of the phone goes bad or is at service center for some repair, their is always a fallback phone.

Hope this helps.

[sukhbirST]

I’ve also been using 2 phones since 2012. One personal and other official with number. One is new and other old. Every 3 years or so, the new one moves to old and old one is discarded due to poor battery backup etc.

[KeepReading]

I use two phones.
One for personal usage.
second for Work and banking purpose.
I choose second one as a smaller display size as carrying two is painful.