Hi, recently muggings have increased in my area. Is there any reliable way to remotely wipe the phone (similar to Google's Find My Device feature)? Usually they don't force the victim to unlock it beforehand (PIN duress feature comes in handy here), but most are either a "simple" mugging, or they'll take it out of your hand if you're distracted, then run away.

I know it's not a silver bullet, most thieves are more concerned about flipping the device rather than the data itself, to which they'd have no access if it was locked, etc, etc.

But is there any reliable way to do it? Has the GOS team looked into implementing this or a similar feature? Curious about the technical challenges, if someone would like to go a bit in depth!

    unplugmaverick You can use any remote wipe apps using the device admin API. It's possible that Google's Find My Device fully works with GrapheneOS but we aren't regularly testing it so it probably isn't a good idea to depend on sandboxed Google Play Services for this.

      if you manage to find smth good and relieable let me know, i have been searching for such solution. i have been using wasted from fdroid, but its not updated and it doesnt work all the time. plus, if you insert a high wat charger while wasted is installed it will wipe your phone

        Be careful because most of this apps only works in AFU state, so if you have auto reboot activated, and your phone goes to BFU state, it won't wipe anything.

          GrapheneOS With GPServices installed, how invasive is it? For example, I use Google Maps sometimes, is it any different in terms of privacy/privileges?

          exodus bobbed859
          That's why I was looking into the GOS team input, maybe they had something in the pipelines or had a solution to tackle this issue. Seems we're out of luck though.