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  I_am_tiberius
  Everytime I read GrapheneOS news I search for news related to Fairephone. It's such a shame that there's still no official plan for Fairephone to work on requirements for GrapheneOS. The combination of those 2 would be fantastic. It would also open a big new market (I assume) for Fairephone so not sure why there seems no clear sign in that direction at all (to my knowledge).
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  mrd3v0
  I wish they prioritised the call app. It is beyond appalling. You can't even determine when a call happened, beyond the generic low fidelity "[time] ago". It also almost feels like tapping anything makes me accidentally call people. Abhorrent UI/UX to be completely honest.
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  cloudie78
  How about some screenshots?
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  Maskawanian
  Does anyone know if this is something that we can install now, or if it will show up in the next OS release?
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  mewse-hn
  Does it do RCS?
• module1973
  Would have been cool to have encrypted SMS messages like the SMSecure app while we wait for RCS
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  LoganDark
  That was really fast, they only announced it like a day or two ago IIRC? Also: no screenshots of the redesigned interface?!
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  mmooss
  With a seemingly insurmountable workload - maintain an actually secure OS fork - for a small team, I wonder how GrapheneOS prioritizes things like messaging apps? I'm not saying it's wrong at all; I am just interested in the thinking inside a project like that.I can imagine many reasons to devote resources to it:* A platform is only as good as its apps. If they want to grow GOS in the general public, it requires a good SMS/MMS messaging app.* LLM tools greatly reduce development costs, especially for well-known functions like text messaging.* Without secure messaging (as far as SMS/MMS can be secure), the platform security is greatly reduced.* GOS got a big donation, or has a volunteer that wants to do messaging ...But idk what I'm talking about. What is their approach?
• preisschild
  I had a scary bug on an older version where for months the contact names didnt match the actual senders/recipients. I have received SMS from my WISP under the same contact as Github MFA codes but also send mssages to relatives that never where received...
• lollobomb
  Now, can we please get the long-awaited full system backup feature? We pay you for a reason!(sarcasm obvious, but indeed full system backup is sorely missing. Seedvault is crap, not an option)
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  andrepd
  Seeing "Material 3/Material You" is a negative point for me, not a positive. It's almost comical just how atrocious the UI is. Yes let's make all phones 20% huge-er and all whitespace 40% wider, said no sane person ever.
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  gib444
  Looks prettier but a shame an obvious regression happened for one of my primary use-cases: copying one-time codes. Long pressing on a link selects the entire SMS instead of bringing up a menu for the link. [0]Makes me wonder about all the testing nowAnd the issue worded/tagged as a feature instead of a regression. Are the devs aware the feature existed before?later:It's doubly disappointing because just 4 days ago the project wrote [1], on using AI for the new Messaging app:"it's also helping us raise our standards for our own work by pointing it at that to get extremely pedantic criticism catching many things we would miss...We've hired multiple experienced app developers who have spent months working on modernizing the Messaging app and carefully reviewing it"[0] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Messaging/issues/292[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592770
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  mvdtnz
  Wake me up when I don't need to ship hundreds of dollars to Google to use this OS.
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  chadgpt3
  Everyone who values privacy should use GrapheneOS