The reasons that lead us to need to have the same application twice on our mobile phones may be different, either to send messages to both our acquaintances and people at work, or simply to keep our privacy. Luckily, there are more and more customization layers in Android that offer us to duplicate applications and thus, for example, use two WhatsApp accounts on the same phone.
One of them is One UI from Samsung, with which, through a function that may be somewhat hidden for many, we will be able to duplicate some of the apps on our smartphone. Although it is not as complete as in other software layers as we will see later. For this reason, in this sense, the software of the Korean manufacturer is somewhat behind if we compare it with other layers such as MIUI or OxygenOS.
Therefore, it is time to see exactly what Samsung Galaxy smartphones offer us to clone the applications that we have installed on the phone. Although, we will also give you other methods so that you can fully meet this goal.
OneUI Configuration
One UI is in many ways a complete layer packed with all sorts of features and customizations, but in this respect it falls a bit short compared to its competitors. Basically, because in the case of Samsung mobile phones, the option to duplicate apps is quite different from what we were expecting.
Although the tool is included in the terminal software itself under the name ‘Dual Messenger’, that is, it is not from Android, the truth is that its name already suggests that it is precisely the function we were looking for. This functionality is intended to create parallel applications of apps and messaging services.
Therefore, the possibilities it offers us are somewhat limited compared to other solutions that we will see later, and that we could find in the other two layers that we mentioned earlier. Specifically, this tool is only responsible for duplicating the messaging apps on the Samsung . If in your case you are looking for only this, you are in luck. To do this, you will need to follow the steps below on your Galaxy phone:
- Open the system settings and then enter the Advanced Settings section.
- Next, look for the ‘ Dual Messenger ‘ option. Its description will confirm its purpose: Sign in to a second account of your favorite social networking applications (including apps like WhatsApp).
- After this, activate the switch of those apps that you want to clone on a Samsung mobile.
Finally, you should know that the duplicate app will be displayed from that moment on the home screen of your phone. To know that it is the clone application, it will have an indicator with which it differs from the original version.
Create new users
If you are looking for an option without resorting to any type of application or external help to create a second space, either for your work or studies, on your Samsung phone, the truth is that you will not find this possibility. In the South Korean manufacturer’s smartphones we only find the possibility of having different accounts, such as Google, or the ‘Dual Messenger’ tool.
Outside of these two options, we will not have another possibility to add several users to the same company Galaxy smartphone. In other words, we will not have the possibility of creating another space similar to our telephone. Instead, we will have the option to use the One UI Secure Folder feature.
It will not be exactly the same, but it will help us to add accounts or applications. In it, we can store more private information. To configure it we must follow these steps:
- Open the Settings panel
- Go to the biometric data and security options
- Access Secure Folder features
- Accept and enter both our Samsung account and the password. In addition, we must choose the unlocking method for each time we want to access it.
Next, you will see that a series of recommendations and instructions for use appear on the screen that explain everything that can be done with this Samsung security feature. Of course, you will see that one of them is to save applications, or copies of them, within this new place.
That’s right, if you wish, you have the possibility of installing the same application twice on your mobile phone since what is created is a second space, in the same way that we achieve it with other customization layers. The only requirement is that you have a Samsung account activated in the service, so you need to remember the access credentials for everything to go well.
When it comes to adding apps, you can do so by downloading them from Google Play, the Android store, or the Samsung application repository: Galaxy Apps .
Use apps that help you
We have already seen that, unlike other Chinese manufacturers that make it very easy to use this type of tool, the option that One UI offers us on Samsung mobiles falls short, so we will have no choice but to use other applications, which we find for free on Google Play, to be able to duplicate applications on the mobile.
There are many and very varied, but the truth is that in our search we have come across some that have too much publicity. It is the price to pay, worth the redundancy, for using free apps. These are the ones that, in our opinion, work best.
Island
The first of the tools that we bring you to duplicate apps on Samsung is Island. We are facing one of the last to be developed and to reach the Google application store and among its many options, it includes the possibility of creating app clones so that we can run two sessions of the same application completely simultaneously.
However, the main difference of this software compared to the rest of the tools that we will show you below is that this app creates a workspace where the applications that have been duplicated will be installed and executed. Therefore, it is a system very similar to the one we have already seen that makes Samsung’s own secure folder possible.
To clone the apps you must:
- Open the Island app
- First press the “+” button to add the app to Island
- When it’s added, simply choose where to create the copy and in which space to leave it
- You can create a direct access to it on the desktop
Parallel Space
Secondly, we bring you one of the most popular tools to clone apps, which is called Parallel Space . In fact, its popularity is such that many manufacturers have adapted its operation in their customization layers. This software will allow us to manage multiple accounts in the same app as well as the simple fact of customizing the appearance of the apps that will be duplicated on the phone, so that we can differentiate them from the original.
Therefore, this option will allow us to create parallel applications of several different apps , including some popular ones such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Instagram. And, of course, you will be able to log in to each of them with different credentials.
To do this, we will only have to access the app after downloading it from Google Play and granting it the necessary permissions. Finally, we will have to select the applications that we want to clone on the Samsung phone, without much mystery.
When the cloning process is finished, the app will allow us to log in to the secondary application.
AppClone
This app is somewhat less well-known, but the truth is that it will be just as useful as Parallel Space is App Cloner. However, this software was removed from Google Play without us really knowing the reasons, because it worked really well . Despite this, the app is still maintained by its developer, still receiving frequent updates. So we can download it through APKMirror , as long as we allow the installation of software of unknown origin from the One UI settings.
App Cloner will let us create totally independent copies of the applications that we select. Of course, you have to take into account that not all of them can be cloned (basically the system ones and some others). Although the most popular ones like the Facebook messaging services or other social networks will leave us.
When we open this tool for the first time, the complete list of all the apps installed on the Samsung Galaxy will appear. By clicking on one of them, we can choose the option to clone it and create a direct access on the phone. Simpler impossible.
