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Graphene is NOT a jailbroken/rooted OS, its a real secure unrooted, bootloader locked OS, and MS Authenticotor works just fine. If anything does not work its related to dependency of the App maker on a certain attestation google play services grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

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Root =/= insecure. You probably have administrator access on your home computer operating system, and can very likely do online banking via the web browser with no issues. A secure API is possible regardless of the host metal, operating system, or user permissions.

Bingo!

Compliance =!= Security

Root on computers is insecure. Malware can steal secrets from other applications. We're just used to it, but the Android security model is much better.

Do you refer to app-accessible root or user root access? The former is absolutely inherently insecure and compromises the security model of Android/GOS.

This does not play a role - even if you lock your bootloader Play Integrity Checks still fails, and that means you can't use certain apps, MDM and overall restricts your usage. Thank Google for that.

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