GrapheneOS vs Android OS on the Pixel 7 Review

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play - Sandboxed Google Play Documentation https://youtu.be/hx2eiPTe7Zg - Sensor & Network Permissions https://youtu.be/WjrANjvrSzw - Storage Scopes Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ I am upgrading to the Pixel 7 and after nearly two years of using Graphene OS, I have decided to leave the stock Android OS installed on it. Let me be clear, I did not want to do this, but I figured in order to offer a fair comparison between stock Android OS and Graphene OS, I should probably test out the stock OS and see how it is. My first impression with stock Android OS is that it has a very friendly setup. It wants you to log into your accounts to sync your settings and it comes with a ton of popular apps installed, as well as the Google Play Store, installed by default. I am speaking objectively for someone new to the OS, not from a privacy or security perspective. The whole initial experience was very welcoming. To keep things equal in my testing, I am going to be using the Play Store on both OS’s by signing in so I can download apps. I also wanted to try and embrace the stock Android OS as much as possible to see if there were any features I might miss. ...

January 22, 2023 · 6 min · 1201 words · Josh