For alpha testers, a preview update of the AOSP Messaging app is out in #GrapheneOS. It is mostly bug fixes and to be updated to a newer target API.

This is part of future work to replace all the default apps with new, better apps or to fork them and make them more useable. App developers have been hired to help for this task. Changes won't be immediate but app improvements should be made in the near future.

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"Finally, some messaging that's not just a 'text' update News for alpha testers who were about to give up on AOSP Messaging! Forking and upgrading - a new era of Android apps is dawning #GrapheneOS #AOSP #AndroidUpdate"

That's awesome! Any ideas or guesses on when app communication scoping may be released?

It's still a planned feature but it is very difficult to implement the way we want it to be. This may take a while the same way duress PIN or 2FA fingerprint unlock did. It's likely this feature will start with a narrow implementation that blocks most app communication but not prevention of two apps working between one another. It will progress from there.

User profiles and private spaces segregate app communication while also providing users the choice to use a different VPN or Tor.

You know the always OPEN links in incognito setting? Great one.

but I would like a setting that always launches the browser in incognito mode.

Now every time I open have to click 3X dotts. Then "New Incognito Tab".

Mby you guys can make a remember or always open in incognito toggle.

Vanadium

It's in our issue tracker, but it's a low priority compared to what needs to be worked on. You can hold press the Vanadium icon on the home menu and hold press the "New incognito tab" to add the shortcut to the home screen if that helps.