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Genuinely want to daily with GrapheneOS but I'm concerned about a few things. Can someone help me understand how it all works in practice?
Intro
I've been on a soft degoogle journey over the last year or so, slowly switching services. (I've added a list of what I have and haven't switched so far to the bottom of this post)
I've switched my laptop to mint and that's gone well. My next frontier is my phone. I already run a Pixel 9 Pro XL. I've carried out a fair bit of research but some of the info isn't clear or has changed. I am hoping somebody can answer my below questions.
Apps
Will these apps work in some way? Or is there reasonable alternatives?
- Google Find my devices - I could give this up, but I do have a fair bit of money spent on trackers that are useful.
- Google Nest Doorbell - I know I know, I might just bite the bullet and replace this
- Pixel Screen Calling - I get lots of spam calls so this is pretty useful
- Waze or Google Maps - I mostly use Comaps for general mapping, but I often do long trips and these are just so useful with their traffic info
- Wireless android auto (Pretty sure this is a yes from researching)
- Pixel camera (This is a must, I take lots of photos of my kids and need the quality)
Workflow
- How does the sandboxed play services work? If it's in a seperate profile do I have to keep swapping profiles to see my notifications/open apps?
- I use a fair few apps that rely on notifications via Google Firebase(?), do these work okay? What do I need to do?
- In day to day usage if I use the aurora store? Do apps stay up to date okay?
- How much tweaking on average do you need to do after installing an app? Are 90% just work?
- If I just install loads of google apps with sandboxed google play, is there much benefit switching?
Degoogle Progress
- Calculator - Fossify Calculator
- SMS/RCS -
- Home - Home assistant
- Doorbell -
- Find my friends -
- Find my devices -
- Maps/Waze - Organic Maps
- Pixel OS - GrapheneOS
- Contacts -
- Wallet - Garmin + some OSS barcode app?
- Android Auto
- Pixel Launcher
- Clock - Needed??
- Google Drive Backup - Proton Drive backup/scaleway
- Whatsapp - Signal
- Sheets - Proton Sheets
- Weather - Weawow
- Photos - Ente
- Keyboard - Futo
- Google Translate - Kagi Translate
- Tasks - Ticktick
- Ads - ControlD
- AI - Kagi AI
- Youtube - PipePipe
- Chrome - Firefox
- Google history - All deleted and not logged
- Location History - Disabled and deleted
- Google News - FreshRSS
- Pixel Watch - Garmin
- Google Fit - Garmin
- Search - Kagi
- Docs - Proton Docs/Standard Notes
- Drive - Proton Drive
- Gmail - Proton/Simplelogon
- Keep - Standard Notes
- Passwords - Bitwarden
u/GazelleInitial2050 — 1 day ago