You can manually create shortcuts : in Shelter, click on the app you want and click on something to create a shortcut.
Yes, there is a menu selection: unfreeze and create shortcutâ
But I donât know why I have to unfreeze and what does this âunfreezeâ is meaning
That doesnât work on my Nougat build. Or rather the shortcut is created, but on the Bliss Home screen instead of the OpenLauncher screen.
I remember that when I first started using /e/ (also a Nougat build), there was an issue where the Browser and Contacts âAdd to Home screenâ functions added the shortcut to the Bliss, rather than to OpenLauncher. This looks to be the same problem. Iâve tried find a related issue but there isnât one, so Iâll raise it
Edit: This is now raised as issue #1529
I have a small question:
Will I see notifications when I get a message on whatsapp if I install it only in shelter? Or will it ânot get throughâ because it is only in shelter?
Iâm getting WA push notifications. But some users have to install WA in main. (Only install, no setup! !! ) to get notifictions
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I get notifications, too, even though itâs only installed in shelter.
Hello.
No notification fir me (until I âunfreezeâ it, because I keep WA almost always frozen)âŚ
LoL âŚ
No prob with friends living far, far, far⌠(GMT -4, GMT +11, here GMT +2) 
Can someone tel me what it is for this Freez function?
Sorry, two pics from Shelter > Works profile:
Frozen, an app canât send or catch dataâs to/from an otherâŚ
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So freez stop the comunication beween apps that are alos inside shelter.
In the main, it is also possible to freez, so it would freez comunication between specific app in main.
What dose auto freez mean?
No, it isnât possible, you just can clone an app to work profile. Note that you can umistall an app from Main while using it in Work, you can also install an app only in Work.
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Okay, I juste freezed WA and it disappeared.
???
Did you scroll down page, in Work?
Thatâs not correct, sorry. Freeze is only âstoppingâ the app. So no background actions could be done. As soon as you unfreeze it / launch it, itâs collecting data if it has trackers
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same as fab (with a Sony XA2, whatsapp not frozen)
A manual for shelter! Thank you!
That´s what I tried to find and landed on the developer`s page, where he mentioned âIslandâ as an alternative also in F-Droid now. Do you know if any of the two are better (and why)?
Hello.
Shelter was forked from Island, to be full FOSS (Island wasnât), with a pretty licence 
This non-copyleft licence exists in French tooâŚ
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Hello.
With new clean install (e-0.19-n) WA seems to need microG and doesnât want to load my local backup. Looking for the reason, sheltered microG instance has an issue with unifiednlp (see below):
I tried to install UnifiedNlp (no gapps) from Apps (in Shelter), but same auto-test after reboot. Not a hurry, but if someone knows how toâŚ
Thanks.