treenutz68 if you want to use Play Services to get notifications working for apps that need it, then you will need to enable network for Play Services. (And it makes sense to enable network for the other 2 apps as well if you are already enabling it for one of them)
Edit: sorry, were you talking about location, not notifications?
No you got it, I was talking about notifications. So it sounds like you should enable network for all 3 in that case?
treenutz68 yes :)
roamer4223 but this doesn't mean i have to login to a google account correct?
[deleted] no, you only need to log in if you want to install/update apps with Google Play Store. Notifications will work without logging in
roamer4223 thank you!
To add to this, since no one has mentioned it…
Been using Graphene for about 8 months now and current setup is to have nothing Google on my owner profile, then a 2nd user that has Google play and invasive apps like maps and gmail and what not. Then a 3rd user profile for banking and business apps.
This has been working pretty sweet, except for not being able to use widgets or PWA's in secondary user profiles. Or at least, I'm able to use them, but as soon as I go to the owner profile, the widgets/PWAs disappear from the screen/menus. Having to constantly set them again is a bit annoying, and not very usable. This is an AOSP bug, and won't be fixed anytime soon, as it's been there for years and probably not a priority for google as these use-cases are pretty niche.
So now considering switching my operations to make the owner profile my daily driver, with the widgets and PWAs I like to use, so that they will stay put whenever I switch profiles. Still considering if I need google stuff on the main profile, but I'll probably test doing without and keep the 2nd user profile with the invasive apps. Apart from privacy advantages, it's also a good way of not being distracted by the bullshit apps too much.
I installed some apps (Fdroid, aurora store, proton VPN, Bitwarden) in owner profile which I share out to my main daily driver profile (no google) and banking profile (google installed)
The banking profile ends session as soon as I switch out. I use NextDNS and its crazy how many calls I see to google once I switch to google enabled profile. As soon as that session ends, all calls to google stop. Pretty cool.
A bit annoying yes to switch back and forth to bank.
What I do notice is I tend to miss system updates by not using the owner profile much
I'll switch over once a month or so, and will sometimes notice a system update notification from a couple of weeks prior.
Other than that, been quite happy with GOS on a Pixel 7. Almost a year now
Frostily7047 What I do notice is I tend to miss system updates by not using the owner profile much
I'll switch over once a month or so, and will sometimes notice a system update notification from a couple of weeks prior.
If you have Send notifications to current user turned on for the Owner profile, you shouldn't be missing system updates.
