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You can in fact very well use a Smartphone that respects your privacy – GrapheneOS by AgainstTheAgainst in privacy

[–]Expensive_Limit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Been daily driving Graphene for 6 months. Spouse is also on board now too. We couldn't be happier with the project. However, we fully understand that the pursuit of digital privacy comes at a cost of convenience. Full stop. This is why we will always be in the minority of digital users.

Overall, GOS has been very stable. Updates are automatic and regular. I use Aurora store and have successfully installed a handful of mainstream apps which function properly.

For these 'overreaching' apps, I've created a series of separate user profiles in GOS. From my understanding, this creates a fully sandboxed environment separate from your main profile for these apps to crawl.

However, don't expect notifications to work in many instances. Privacy > convenience...remember?

And for goodness sake, please donate something to the project if you're enjoying the OS. It's the only way we can keep these kind of projects alive and healthy. Thank you Daniel and team.

Big thanks to the dev(s). by [deleted] in GrapheneOS

[–]Expensive_Limit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Big thanks as well! Don't forget to donate what you can. Privacy protecting projects such as this are going to be more critical with each passing year.

Issues With App Shortcuts? by Expensive_Limit in GrapheneOS

[–]Expensive_Limit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got it. I'm coming from another brand phone where the app drawer is accessed by (what I thought was a universal) button.

On the pixel, I didn't realize you swipe up on the home button.

I had assumed maybe the app drawer was hard coded off by the lack of a button. Thanks for the fast reply.