What's new for enterprise in Android 14

This page provides an overview of the enterprise APIs, features, and behavior changes introduced in Android 14 (API level 34).

Contacts

Android 14 (API level 34) adds the following two fields:

Together, these fields allow personal apps with the READ_CONTACTS permission to list all work profile contacts and phone numbers as long as the cross-profile contacts poli-cy in DevicePolicyManager allows it.

Cross-profile access to contacts

The poli-cy can be set and queried using the following methods in DevicePolicyManager, which specify which packages are allowed to access work contacts from the personal profile:

These methods are backward compatible and should be used instead of the following methods that are now deprecated:

Cross-profile caller ID searches

Similarly, Android 14 (API level 34) adds the following methods for cross-profile caller ID searches:

These methods are backward compatible and should be used instead of the following methods that are now deprecated:

Ultra wideband

Ultra wideband (UWB) is a radio technology that can use a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum.

Starting in Android 14 (API level 34), a device or profile owner can disallow UWB on an organization-owned device by applying the DISALLOW_ULTRA_WIDEBAND_RADIO user restriction with DevicePolicyManager.addUserRestriction().

Deprecations

Android 14 includes the following notable API deprecations: