GrapheneOS to iodéOS on Pixel
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I switched my Google Pixel from GrapheneOS to iodéOS to keep privacy, restore banking apps, and get Android Auto working again.

I’ve been using a de-Googled Android setup and found myself running into the same issue a lot of people probably do: the privacy-first option is great right up until the everyday stuff stops working properly.

In my case, banking apps and Android Auto were the sticking points. GrapheneOS was excellent in principle, but iodéOS ended up being the more practical fit for my actual use case.

I’d be interested to hear where other people draw that line between privacy, convenience, and reliability.

  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    No, it doesn’t pass the “strong” integrity attestation. None of “custom” ROMs does.

    It’s degoogled in the sense that it doesn’t run original Play Services, but runs open source microG implementation instead. It still talks to the Google services and it still maintains the connection to Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications. MicroG sends out less sensitive infromation, but still does talk to Google.

    The reason why banking apps didn’t run on GrapheneOS but ran on iodeOS is probably one of two:

    • either the author hasn’t disabled additional GOS protections (e.g. native code debugging) which shitty banking apps tend not to like
    • or the apps rely on the Play Services (mocked by microG on iodeOS out of the box), and the author hasn’t installed them