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The post doesn't say - what's new? Anything to look forward to besides the security patches for A17 being available for longer than they will be for A16?

Asking as an A11 user who will probably soon need to switch to a new device. I haven't noticed anything on other people's phones that isn't available on mine, including on my work phone that runs an up-to-date GrapheneOS (but I don't need to do much more than calling and 2FA, so I might just not be seeing it). Anything you guys are excited for, or any protips of things to check out that were released recently?

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Desktop mode is new and exciting.

This should have the full list; it's not a ton of changes, which speaks to how perfected Android has become.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/Android-17...

New garbage collector could be pretty big.

But some of the garbage collector changes are also rolling out to older Android versions through a Play System Update.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/Android-17...

I'm not sure though if GrapheneOS gets mainline modules at all (most likely not).

Ah, right I forgot they are discontinuing ChromeOS. Makes sense that current Android releases are focused on getting the Android laptop experience on par

Edit: not discontinued but 'merge with Android' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS

Presumably any new Android 17 features that aren't counter to GrapheneOS's mission, such as "Bubbles allows you to turn any app into a compact, floating window" https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

Does GrapheneOS run on tablets? I don't see a whole chat app (shown in the example) fitting on my phone screen alongside something like a web browser, and the screenshot is from a square screen

It's complicated. The Tensor G2 Pixel tablet was a solid device, and you can still buy it new from Google (with no choice on color or size in my country), but production has been discontinued and the two direct generational successors were canceled, in sequence. First it was skipping a generation, then it was canceling it entirely. The rumored "Pro" version also appears to have been axed.

I've used mine daily since it came out, and it's a great experience. I'd recommend picking it up for anyone who wants GOS on a larger screen. An iPad it isn't, but my iPad Pros have sat almost totally dormant since I got it years ago.

It lacks horsepower compared to the latest Pixel Pros, but that hasn't been a practical concern in anything I've done with it so far.

> production has been discontinued and the two direct generational successors were canceled, in sequence. First it was skipping a generation, then it was canceling it entirely. The rumored "Pro" version also appears to have been axed.

Pity. Genuine pity. Guess I'll continue using my 5 year-old out-of-support device until someone decides to make a decent GrapheneOS-compatible tablet with stylus pen support. If it breaks, I'll just go back to notebooks.

It really is.

The Pixel tablet is a mere 3 years old, and still supported, for whatever that's worth. I don't use a stylus but I believe it supports USI2. I'll rock mine as long as I possibly can.

GrapheneOS runs on an extremely limited set of hardware, mostly Google's own Pixel phones.

There's a shot of GrapheneOS on a tablet just past the three-minute mark in this video. I suspect that's a Pixel tablet (of which thee are several), though I'm not certain and the video doesn't specify:

<https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=aNgupWEV13M&t=188>]

Google Pixel tablet: <https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_tablet?hl=en-US>

Discussion on Reddit says Google Pixel and Pixel Fold are both supported (tablets): <https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/16bp6e9/anyone_...>.

There's an (un)folding Pixel that runs GOS. Not exactly a tablet, but possibly sufficient depending on your needs. Not cheap, however.

It runs on tablets and folding devices. There hasn't been a recent tablet meeting the requires but the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and Pixel 10 Pro Fold are supported. Both of those are phones folding out into a close to square tablet. There will be more standalone tablets supported again.

Not sure about tablets, but you can connect most of the recent pixels to a display

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