GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 after Google removed key security feature

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The team behind GrapheneOS has confirmed that they were unable to complete GrapheneOS for Google Pixel phones.

GrapheneOS developers said this was due to Google’s new phones lacking support for the MTE security feature.

The team says they might have to skip the Pixel 11 phones as a result and shift focus entirely to Motorola devices.

GrapheneOS is the best custom ROM if you want a secure, private experience. Unfortunately, Google recently made it harder for developers to build custom ROMs for Pixel phones. Now, it turns out that the Pixel 11 phones might not get GrapheneOS at all due to a missing security feature.

The GrapheneOS team announced on Mastodon that they were unable to complete GrapheneOS for Google Pixel 11 phones: