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A platform package labelled "Private space", tied to Android's Private Space feature. Private Space is a separate, lockable area for sensitive apps: AOSP describes it as built on the multi-user model as a dedicated private profile (one per device, for the main user only), with its apps shown in a separate launcher container and hidden from recents, notifications and settings while it is locked. No source consulted names this package or says exactly which part of the feature it implements. AOSP does document that, from Android 16 QPR2, users can copy or move files from outside into the private space, with a system component handling the transfer, but whether that component is this package could not be confirmed. Version note: Private Space arrived in Android 15, and the user restriction that controls it, DISALLOW_ADD_PRIVATE_PROFILE, was added in API level 35. This standalone package, however, appears in our sample only on devices running API 36 and API 37 (Android 16 and Android 17), mostly Pixels and Googlebooks, with target SDK 36. That is consistent with the feature being split into its own package after its Android 15 debut, but the release in which that happened could not be sourced. For Android Enterprise the feature matters more than the package. Google documents that on a device with a device owner (fully managed and dedicated) creating a private profile is blocked by default and the device owner cannot allow it. On company-owned work profile devices it is allowed by default, but the profile owner can block it through the parent profile. It is supported on personally-owned and company-owned work profile devices, where Private Space apps bypass any configured VPN. To stop users creating one, use the policy rather than disabling this package; disabling a platform component of a user-facing feature is not a documented control, and its effect on Settings and the launcher is untested.

• Private space - Android Open Source Project →
• UserManager (DISALLOW_ADD_PRIVATE_PROFILE) - Android Developers →
• What is Private Space in Android 15, and how can organisations manage it? - Jason Bayton →
• Is Private Space supported on fully managed devices? - Jason Bayton →
• Package provenance for com.android.privatespace - Android System App Database →

• Never reported as user-facing, so it runs as a background or system component rather than an app the user opens.