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Having the sandboxed Google Play services would be wonderful. I'm currently using LineageOS with microG and Aurora store, but quite a lot of apps do not properly run with microG. Having some kind of fallback alternative in a second user or even better a work profile would be great.

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What apps dont run for you? Everything is working fine for me. Are you also using Magisk with the DenyList enabled?

There's a payment app that detects the installation source is not google play store, and I haven't found a way to use it

Uber maps are totally inaccurate when you try to zoom in/out with microG (even with Mapbox), unfortunately had to reinstall GApps because of this.

Because of this I'd love to see GrapheneOS' sandboxed Google Play Services shims I'd love to see integrated into LineageOS.

Not sure if this is acceptable to you, but Uber has a web app at <https://m.uber.com>. I seem to recall that you have to "request" access in order to use it, but it was an automated rubber-stamp thing. The only downside (besides what you'd expect for a web app vs a native app) is that you can't do fancy things like multiple destinations in one trip, or changing your destination on the fly.

The Lyft equivalent is <https://ride.lyft.com>.

Unfortunately the Uber web app is disabled for my country (UK).

FYI, GrapheneOS supports sandboxed Google Play services.

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