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by saint_yossarian 831 days ago
Regarding 2, a couple of things to watch out for:

- There's no Google cloud backup, it uses Seedvault instead. It was a bit of a pain setting up some apps from scratch again (those that didn't have other backup mechanisms), but if I ever reinstall or switch to another phone running GrapheneOS I can copy over the backups and presumably restore them. It also supports some remote storage providers, but I haven't bothered with those yet.

- There's no Google Digital Wellbeing, which I used to track screen time and set limits for some apps. There are some limited alternatives on F-Droid, but I just ended up using Tasker to give me reminders when I'm staring at the screen for too long.

Other than that I didn't have any problems, and really enjoy the privacy features. Especially the ability to block network access per app, and set up custom storage scopes.

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You can backup more via the OS backup system using the device-to-device toggle. This should really be the default and perhaps the only way to do it. We have a new backup app planned with initial research work into that started.

> and set up custom storage scopes

There's also Contact Scopes now. We've started work on adding App Communication Scopes for controlling that within profiles and we'd like to do similar features for Camera, Microphone and Location (the standard mock location feature is not great).