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I think banking apps especially the ones in UK, won't work on this device.

NatWest and Monzo work fine on my Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS. Community maintained list of supported banking apps here:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Google Wallet is not supported at all.

with avbroot ?

I didn't have to do any resigning or repacking apks. It just worked installed from the play store.

Curve works and you can set that up as a replacement for Google Pay.

As domh mentioned, some (not all) banking apps do seem to work well at the moment. My concern would be that what works today may not work tomorrow. My HSBC app seems to get more crippled with every update and it wouldn't surprise me at all if a future update rendered it unusable on GrapheneOS (which is the main thing stopping me from moving to it).

It's probably a pipe dream but I do hope that someone like Motorola officially supporting GrapheneOS will make businesses take support somewhat seriously. If nothing else you sound less like a crazy person when you tell your bank's customer support "I bought a Motorola phone and now your app doesn't work" than "I flashed a custom ROM to my Pixel and now your app doesn't work".

Banking apps will be catastrophe in the future. Petition your bank, you want to use PC web app with certificate authentication.

If they don't support it -> notify them and change bank. Enough people doing this, something will change.

Good luck with that. Of all the things people don't really care about, I think that might be at the far end of the list.

Certification authentication is neat technology in principle, I use it internally, but in my experience anyone who recognizes it also hates it passionately. It's the thing that seemingly stops working every time their taxes are due, courtesy of terrible government software.

If I started telling people that they should be demanding certificate authentication from their banks, they'd probably think that I escaped an asylum.

90% of banking apps work on GrapheneOS. Curve Pay works for tap-to-pay.

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... has a UK section.

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