AmjithViswambharan Personally, I have no interest in hiding videos / photos, or password-protecting applications.
The ‘hidden space’ in my app drawer was perfect for keeping applications that I need installed, but don’t need to interact with out of my app drawer so that it was clutter free.
I.e. Iconpacks, customisation tools, SMS backup utils, notification management stuff, banking apps, food ordering apps, parking apps and all the Google guff that I don’t use (Chrome, Find my Device, YT Music, TV etc.)
Unfortunately, there are a bunch of those that I interact with once on a blue moon that I need running, that run on a schedule (back up utils, notification manager, widgets) and now they either a) won’t work properly, or b) I have to move them in my application drawer to just takes up unnecessary space.
It’s frustrating that a new feature (that I will not use) breaks / replaces something I use all the time, rather than being an optional switch.
I’ve not received the update, but I won’t be installing it. I have my animations set to 0.5 which breaks on the latest update, and the private space changes break how I use the phone on a daily basis.