GrapheneOS — Mobile Privacy: 1 Year Later

A long-term review of my daily driver Google Pixel 6A, running GrapheneOS.

Mason C.B.
7 min readAug 14, 2023

First of all, if you want to check out my last post where I dig into a bit more of the why I switched, how I installed the OS, and more, check below:

As for the follow up, well I think I finally have my thoughts together on what I like, don’t like, and where I found the middle ground between privacy, security, and usability.

I will be breaking things down into a few categories, so feel free to jump to each spot and tell me about your experiences in each category. I’ll also be adding a few “pop-out” sections where I call out issues I have had in the category and how I resolved them, so keep an eye out there.

Example of a “pop-out” section. Got it? Good.

GrapheneOS gets a big green thumb from me. — Photo by Katya Ross

Overall Satisfaction

The short answer is: I’m still using it, so obviously it’s worked for me as a daily driver for over a year. I use social media, text and call my…

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Mason C.B.

DevSecOps / Creative Hobbyist. Just trying to be all that I can.