Hello y'all,
So I would like to open a thread about smartwatches, to get some feedback from those of you who have one and how they behave with GrapheneOS. As of me, a recent change in the behaviour of mine might lead me to change model, unfortunately.
So I have a Withings ScanWatch2. It is a hybrid model (connected watch with hands). It used to get the geolocation from the OS and it worked fine if you granted the app with the permanent geolocation privilege, which I did and the app didn't abuse it (it just accessed geolocation during workouts).
With Android 13, it stopped tracking my geolocation since the app should be on the foreground with screen on when starting the workout, which was hard to achieve. I thought they would find some workaround.
Today, I got out running and the app shows "Updating the Google Play services" where it should show the geolocation record. So I suppose that getting the geolocation track would require granting Google Play whatsoever geolocation privilege, which is out of the question.
Has anyone of you a smartwatch with geolocation for running workouts, without sending any location to Google ?
Smartwatches / Geolocation