In my lookout for media involving GrapheneOS, some appear to make "examples" of GrapheneOS being unextractable against some small, irrelevant mobile forensics software.

These do nothing to show OS hardening capabilities. Free trial, small fry software suites have no unique exploits and the gold lies in what is not for the general public. Free/public editions of software would need a surrender of OS credential practically every time and they're essentially used for training, research, or consented investigations. They are not the focus of what would interest me, personally.

When you aren't putting in any effort, of course GrapheneOS won't work. You can't just click a button and extract, that's silly. You could give the credential away, disable the screen lock, enable USB debugging and give it a shot but you won't be surprised about the results.

There *could* be merit to deploying a userdebug / eng build in a test environment and doing a consent extraction to simulate a scenario. You could then assess forensic artefacts of apps or differences between GrapheneOS and stock for research with one of these free suites. I've done this a couple of times. It still has nothing to do with the security of the OS because you'd never, ever deploy a testing OS with root access.

Also unrelated, half the UIs look like complete garbage. What I can judge about the big industry names is they have great UIs, feels like only Cellebrite, MSAB, Oxygen care from what I see. Magnet is a mixed bag, some of their software just needs a revamp...