Thinking on moving to it.
What about the cons or less liked features? Any thoughts?
I use GrapheneOS now for almost 7 months on my Pixel 8 Pro and it is an awesome experience. Here is an overview over the features I like the most:
1) Clean system: There are only a few pre-installed apps for basic tasks, and no Google services by default
2) Sandboxed Google Play: The possibility to use apps from the Play store as normal but with fine-tuned permissions and minimal permissions for the Play services itself
3) More permission control: You can control permissions as with default Android, but you can additionally control the network and sensors permission
4) More security features: You have more control over the system's security with switches for various things including exploit protection, memory hardening and Webview JIT
5) Flawless updates: System and app updates on GrapheneOS work without problems. Since I've started using it, I never had problems after an update.
6) Vanadium: It is the system's webview and a web browser. It is a variant of Chromium with added hardening and security.
Thank you nostr:npub1tva8g98fx0fks0pt38vr75tv02t30qd5ev7n5v7fcpl6t44hf7kqgg2yl5 for the excellent work.
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For me the cons:
In my experience compare to stock android the battery life is bad but I think that's because of android 15. As I was using android 14 with Google s stock os. (even in idle of night 8 hours drops around 8-9%). According to battery manager "system (idle)" is responsible of the 87% drop
Some banking apps might not work but compare to stock os. And also new integrity check is also causing some problems to run apps like authy on any custom roms.
And pros are mentioned in above. To be a honestly I am also using it and quite happy about it.