Practical GrapheneOS for the Paranoid • Ventral Digital
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For instance, I tried installing android auto from the google play store and it failed miserably. However, in the grapheneOS store, you can install it there.
That is entirely not trivial for me and having to go read the docs on every app I want is rather annoying.
Other apps that do not work for me at all are anything wallet related, specifically ticket master. For concerts I have to use someone elses phone which is inconvenient.
I'm getting my first Pixel soon (the 9), mainly for the small size and years of upgrades.
Thought about trying graphene, but it just protects against a huge amount of things that don't matter for my threat model. If an adversary gets access to my phone, they'll almost certainly wipe and sell it, not hack into it.
GrapheneOS offers so much privacy features. And is always up-to-date.
There's single thing missing: option to turn on flashlight while screen is off using the power button gesture. But installing the "FlashDim" app does that (with no permissions except accessibility).
I do sorely miss two LineageOS customization features, though.
* Keyboard navigation settings, GrapheneOS is super AOSP barebones there, which indeed makes gestures superior, but with LineageOS I’m far faster with the buttons.
* A feature that IMO should be in the base version of android, but somehow is not: Volume buttons for moving the cursor in a text field. Using touch for that is many times harder and slower when it’s stupidly simple to do so with the volume rocker.
There are action shortcuts for cursor navigation.