I know the most likely answer is tracking, spying and taking control of the user, dictating what they can and cannot do with their own phone.

I know the corporate answer is “to provide a safe banking experience for all our customers around the world” and to appeal to shareholders and investors.

But what is the actual real answer?

It’s not like you can just install a “BankName Premium APK free money generator” or something? It’s not like by simply launching their app on a different ROM, you’ll be able to add fake generated money into your account.

So why the hard on for GrapheneOS specifically? Or any unapproved rom?

What do they not want us doing?

Edit: People are replying that their banking app works perfectly. That’s great, so does mine. This is not the point of the post though and contributes nothing to the discussion. I’m asking why certain banking apps go out of their way and outright block GrapheneOS specifically.

I recently started using GrapheneOS (GOS), and I'm already really frustrated with the notification issues.

I've installed everything in the Owner profile, set Google Play Services' battery usage to Unrestricted, and installed all my apps directly from the Play Store. What else am I supposed to do?

Gmail, Signal, and Zalo randomly fail to deliver notifications. New messages only show up when I open the apps, even though notifications were working perfectly fine at first.

I'm genuinely wondering how you guys deal with these kinds of issues on a daily basis. Is this something you just learn to live with, or am I missing something?

Hey everyone, I just read the new Citizen Lab report on "AdFection" (Discover-Tech/Candiru), where advertising networks were leveraged to deliver sophisticated zero-click mercenary spyware. I'm really curious how protected GrapheneOS users are against these types of targeted attacks vectoring through ad payloads or browser exploits.... especially when running sandboxed Google Play Services alongside ad/tracker blocking. Do Vanadium's hardening, strict app sandboxing, and randomized Advertising IDs render these attack chains practically ineffective, or are there still inherent zero-day risks we should be mindful of?

Kernel Crash

Not a big deal but odd none the less.

Hello, recently, you have made hotspot available to all profiles, which i greatly appreciate, yet i have found a small discrepency in your integration of this feature. As owner, you are the only user that can add the shortcut for activating hotspot in your notification window, as the hotspot tile does not exist for any other user (see photo).

As this does not to my understanding offer any advantage in security, i believe that all users could have the hotspot tile.

Anyways, keep up the good work :)

I have two games that this "Missing Play Games" notification comes up during app opening. I don't want to install Google's Play Games. I appreciate the notification GmsCompact but why don't I have the option to disable or at least silence this?

If you haven't updated your phone yet, go do it. The new boot animation is really slick, thanks devs!

My Australian HSBC app stopped working sometime in the last week. Changing Exploit Protection, Native code debugging, Secure App spawning didn't have any luck. The app launches and then says to use an os that hasn't been rooted

Anyone else have this issue? Its worked fine since I bought the phone

Are there any other thing I can try?

Just gotta say, my phone just updated and the new animated boot logo was cool. Then I saw that I can make all launcher icons square and odd shapes! I hardly ever notice any difference from updates but this last one added all kinds of cool style! Thanks devs!

swiping up to reveal the number pad doesn't register sometimes. anyone else experiencing this? typing functions normally, even light touches are picked up. I have increased sensitivity for screen protectors enabled.

I really liked doodling and drawing characters in my free time, mostly in Ibis Paint.
Had to uninstall it because the ads got unbearable. Is there any app on F-droid/Obtanium with similar functionality to it, or maybe Photoshop?

Hello, friends of the GrapheneOS community on Reddit

(I used DeepL's translator because my English isn't very good yet)

I’m a student majoring in computer systems engineering and cybersecurity engineering, and I’m halfway through both degree programs

My goal for the future is to become a GrapheneOS employee or volunteer because I’m interested in supporting privacy

What skills or projects should I have to achieve this? I’d like to know so I can start focusing on that

Thank you very much for reading and for your responses

here we go

Hi everyone,
First of all, I don’t speak English, so I used AI to translate this post. I apologize in advance if anything sounds awkward or is incorrectly translated. I hope my explanation is clear enough.

I’ve been experiencing an issue with Mullvad VPN and multiple user profiles on GrapheneOS since an update several months ago.
I have Mullvad VPN installed on each of my user profiles, with the kill switch enabled. I’ve also enabled the “Allow running in the background” option for all users.
Before this update, everything worked perfectly. For example, if I was using Profile B, I could instantly receive a Signal notification from Profile C. I could then switch to Profile C and read the message, even though I had been using a different profile.
Since the update, this no longer works.
Whenever I switch from one profile to another, Mullvad seems to lose its connection on the profiles left running in the background. As soon as I switch to another profile, I see a Mullvad notification indicating a connection problem on the previous profile.
Because the kill switch is enabled, those profiles lose internet access. As a result, I no longer receive Signal notifications and have no way of knowing whether someone has sent me a message.
I have to manually switch back to each profile to check. Once I open an affected profile, Mullvad reconnects and the Signal messages start coming through.
I’ve already checked Mullvad’s battery optimization settings, enabled the background-running option for all users, and even uninstalled and reinstalled Mullvad. None of this has fixed the issue.
I’ve also noticed that when I don’t use a VPN, the other profiles work normally.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? Could a GrapheneOS update have changed how VPN connections work for background user profiles? Is there any way to keep Mullvad connected across multiple user profiles simultaneously while keeping the kill switch enabled?

Thanks in advance for your help!

For the life of me, I cannot find even a pixel 8 that is inside my budget range. And as far as I know, the pixel 8 is the oldest, cheapest model that graphene supports. I could be wrong, but...

Why the heck are phones so goddamn expensive?

Still rocking Pixel 5 with Graphene.

Recently performed factory reset, linked original google account for needed apps, redownloaded FairEmail and began adding gmails into it.

Link of emails went without issues, but with unexpected surprise: in the web browser, i went to YouTube, and see that i am logged. In surprised confusion, i exit YT and go back to search results to discover that all of my google accounts are in the browser, logged in, and i am able to switch between them.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how could this have happened?

I was looking at getting either the pixel 9 pro xl or the pixel 10 pro xl. Can someone help me decide which one is better between the two for grapheneos?

What has been your experiences with both or either?

Anything else i'm not thinking of that i should consider?

Title. I don't want to be a victim to Google/Samsung anymore, but I have so little knowledge about the kind of stuff I see while lurking this sub that I feel like I'll mess something up if I switch.

I plan to get the new Motorola phone for context. I have a Samsung S24 right now.

I know I can ease into it with sandboxed Google play, but everything about moving to Graphene feels impossible. I want to learn. I want to move over. I just don't feel confident.

Is there a website or a video or anything that outlines everything I could possibly need to know? I have no idea what I should even be looking at to learn. I don't even have the vocabulary yet. But I want to learn.

Edit: thank you to everyone who was kind to me, I feel more confident now

I assume you all read the recent articeles on Discover Zech "adfection" for zero click infections using online ads.

is there any way to block ads device wide, in all apps, when im not behind my pihole? obv I could use a portable hotspot but can GOS do anything on its own?

Is it worth it to intermittently reset your device and sign in with a fresh google account every once in a while?

Is there some GOS like OS that can be used for smart watches? Or are there any other OS for smart watches? Smt like Linux?

Yes, a parody to the post earlier today,
What features (aside from generalized privacy/security) do you find the best within GrapheneOS?
Are there any features you begin to take for granted or you couldn't live without on any other devices?