Yes of course. Wouldn't make sense to do something that causes permanent damage. Can reinstall GrapheneOS or another OS without problems.

Since release is in Alpha there will be people in Alpha testing channels reinstalling GrapheneOS often for further QA.

Once backups are improved and not using Seedvault, that new backup system should be designed to work well for recovering after a duress trigger. Although there are bigger priorities right now.

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FYI: GrapheneOS does remain installed after a trigger right now so you can go into a recovery.

Another interesting feature would be a pin that unlocks to a hidden user account with some generic applications installed.

It isn't planned currently as a technical threat would be able to figure that out, or would be able to tell if it is a decoy through other means. It's a big reason we don't have a hidden profile feature at all (e.g. FFS would leave signs). The feature would only work best against someone with no knowledge on what GrapheneOS is. Cellebrite and XRY and other industry actors mentioning us in their internal documents or product material would suggest they study our work and read our posts.

Another example is Owner is still required to be authenticated first and there's tons of ways to see if an authenticated profile os the Owner or not.

We believe features involved in tricking someone could lead to someone trusting that feature and underestimating how skilled the person they're trying to trick, which could endanger them or bring even more trouble. While you could also trick someone with our Duress PIN that's not the objective, the device owner should trigger it when the time is right.

Very good!

Is there a way to prevent someone from picking up my phone, swiping down a couple times, and tapping on users to see how many users I have?

btw, for example the coldcard hardware wallet has a "brick me pin" which actually makes that hardware unusable.