I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!
On this page
Back in June I wrote a post on trying out GrapheneOS. I was going to wait a year before doing an update, but two things happened recently:
First, the big news I've been waiting for: GrapheneOS announced they are partnering with motorola to offer a non-pixel device! Second, Pixel 9 Pro Fold decided to implode.
I've been battling support around the replacement, but was pleasantly surprised by the GrapheneOS backup experience. The upside from all of this is I needed to reinstall GrapheneOS and that gave me a chance to reflect on the last 8.4 months of using it.
The apps
When I first transitioned to GrapheneOS I gave in depth write ups on the apps I kept and the apps I got rid of . This was my first time trying to be intentional about my phone usage. Back then I broke my apps down into five buckets:
"essential" apps that that I use daily. In quotes because I realized I didn't necessarily need all of them.
Nice to have - I use these regularly, but am not overly attached to them.
Google - their various services.
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