Shelter uninstalled by accident, work profile still somewhere

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I accidentally uninstalled Shelter on the start screen, instead of removing the icon. I need access to my main Whatsapp account and banking app, some apps in the work profile are still active and accessible, but Whatsapp and others are frozen and/or invisible. So the work profile data does still exist, but I can’t access it fully.

When trying to reinstall Shelter, it says, I can’t create a new profile, since there already is one. (I had already encountered this notification, but back then the data was irrelevant and I could just delete the work profile.)

Is there a way to restore the work profile with or without Shelter in any kind of way? Maybe via Laptop and root?

I found out, there should be a device management in the settings which could maybe help, but the murena service to download the configuration file seems to be offline or they are working on a new device management service.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

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I did it… after hours via adb with root debugging. Guess the reinstall of Whatsapp through adb did the final trick in the end. May write a short documentation at some point, now I go to sleep (it’s 7 a.m. in Vienna).
Might be helpful for some.

But /e/os should implement, that apps for work profile administration/creation can not be deleted on the fly from anywhere, but only within the specific system settings.

Good night :slight_smile:

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