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.
I’m like 28 hours into my GrapheneOS phone experience (I’ve used it almost daily for a couple months on a tablet but that’s been mostly NewPipe), and so far my banks’ app works (I should report that to the compatibility list, it’s not currently in there), along with basically everything else I used. If anything most of the weirdness seems to come from the jump from Android 12 to 17, and transferring data from apps that are mostly if not entirely on device. (KDE Connect is the goat yet again, extremely helpful here too)