Clear Data of Package for Single User

Question

I am trying to clear the data for a few apps on a work profile without clearing the data on the main user account for my android phone.

What I'm trying for example is :

pm clear com.Microsoft.teams

Is there a way to clear just on the work profile and not my main account?

From my research, you can't seems to specify a user for this command unlike a few other commands: pm documentation

See the latest documentation. Or pm help | grep clear which shows clear [--user USER_ID] PACKAGE — Irfan Latif, Commented Jul 27, 2022 at 14:02
You can specify the userID for pm: --user <USER_ID> . You just need to find out which userID your work profile has. — Robert, Commented Jul 27, 2022 at 14:02
Thanks the both of you. I was able to figure out the user id and clear it with that option. — Kayracer, Commented Jul 27, 2022 at 15:55
@Kayracer You can write an answer yourself showing the commands you have used to get the user id and then how you deleted the data. — Robert, Commented Jul 27, 2022 at 18:19

Kayracer · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-28 20:13:47Z

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Thanks to the commenters, I was able to figure it out.

I used Termux with root privileges, I typed the following:

To be super user

su

Then list the users

pm list users

The number in front of UserInfo{ is what you want

ie. in my case is 12

UserInfo{0::24} running
UserInfo{12:Work profile:35} running

Last enter the clear command

pm clear --user 12 <package to clear>

answered Jul 28, 2022 at 20:13

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