• Delascas@feddit.uk
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    13 hours ago

    The loss of most banking apps and Google Wallet (tap and pay). For me, those are the killer features you lose. And the reason I gave up on custom ROM’s on a FairPhone 3+ after many years.

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      I think “most banking apps” depends on your location. I never had any problems with them.

      Yeah Google Wallet not working is annoying, but for me it’s a good tradeoff.

      • Delascas@feddit.uk
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        It’s not a location thing . . it’s a per-banking app thing. And specifically it’s a “does your banking app use Google Play integrity API” thing. On LineageOS running on my FairPhone 3 . . my banking apps all worked . . . until the day they didn’t. Here is a table reporting the current state of banking app comparability around the world . . but the next update from any specific bank could (and in my case did) break it -

        https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/#international-banking-apps

        PS. In the UK I did actually find an alternative to Google Wallet. . . Curve Pay. Not open source, but not dependent on Play Services. And enabled tap and pay on LineageOS.

        https://www.curve.com/

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          What made you not use the web for your banking? Is the app 100% required? I use the web interface (forcing desktop version) for mine on graphene with no issues.