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What about banking Apps? No problem there?

Some of them have ridiculous secur... compliance rules.

There is a list of compatible banking apps: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Big list, unfortunately one of my banks is not there (BCGE, Switzerland), most probably meaning I can't even login into ebanking in any other way since they have their properietary authentication app (CrontoSign, also not listed). Its rather small regional/cantonal bank so I get it, even though that region is Geneva, mecca of (some types of) banking.

Other banks that I use are there. Almost perfect...

Being missing means they haven’t been tested, not that they don’t work. Generally they probably only don’t work if they require the google play verification thingy

My banking apps were missing in list too, it doesn't mean that they are not working. You can test and report on that issue tracker about your banking app if it works :)

> What about banking Apps? No problem there?

Most banking apps work, but Google Pay/NFC payments won't work.

If your bank doesn't have its own payment app, but PayPal Card is available in your country, I got this setup to work on Graphene by installing PayPal into the Secure Folder, install the sandboxed Play Services there (required) and setup the mobile payments in the app. It's not a great solution, but for I keep it around for emergencies.

I know a handful of german banks that have their own nfc payment apps that still work in Graphene

Google Pay may not work, but NFC payments through yiur bankapp probably do. They did for me.

The vast majority work, check this list for details: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

I had to enable "exploit protection compatibility mode" to use my credit union's app.

In my experience: Everything™ works, except Google pay unfortunately.

You trust a phone with your banking?

My banks app complains will block me and tell me to disable developer mode, but if I turn it right back on after launching the app it won't complain for maybe another week. The post that really annoys me, though, is that if you don't set up biometric unlock they will not allow you to use the extended login cookie, so you need to put in your password every time, most don't work with password managers either (whether intentionally or not).

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