hakayova Sorry, I didn't mention that I tried it on my phone first. All of my messages still show up after clearing the storage in both my owner and another profile.

SMS messages are stored in a database outside of the default messaging app, so clearing the messaging app's storage shouldn't affect stored messages. Regardless, I still don't have much confidence my suggestion will work anyway. Just suggested it because it's a strange issue so throwing out suggestions even if they might not work.

    Thank you @other8026 for the explanation. I tried it and didn't solve my problem. My owner is not setup to use SMS, although it is allowed to, so I only cleaned storage for the secondary user.

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        hakayova My owner is not setup to use SMS, although it is allowed to, so I only cleaned storage for the secondary user.

        I am curious as to in which way the owner profile was set up to not use SMS. Was the Messaging app disabled or deleted?

          The owner has the permission to use SMS; however, the Messaging app is not set up there. When the app is opened, it presents the setup screen which just wasn't used/set up. I set it up with the secondary user instead to prevent duplication.

          FWIW, ebay notifications don't work either. Perhaps they are SMS based, although they appear on the ebay app. I have Signal, Mastodone, email apps and Mastodone working as expected. Since the only 2FA authentication options for ebay are 1. the app and 2. SMS, I have no way to login to my ebay account at the moment. I will restore from a backup that I did over the weekend tonight and report back if it solved the problems. Fingers crossed.

          I ended up factory-resetting the phone. Deleting the secondary user continued to cause problems with apps, weird stuff like Bitwarden not being able to connect to the server, etc. It took me about 4 hours to re-install 93 apps, some of which still needs configuring. I am now using the Owner account and can receive SMS messages; however, messaging app still does not respect the customized notification sound settings and keeps playing the default one. I am not sure yet if the customized ringtones are respected.

          Coming from Pixel 5a, these changes feel like regression to me, since everything was working as expected there. I am also not a big fan of optic fingerprint reader, but the rest will hopefully go smoothly.

          I still prefer GrapheneOS to any other alternative, as much frustrated as I may sound. It's got the right values at the right places, and the rest is more tolerable. I cannot imagine how much work and self-sacrifice it took to get it to where it is now. Huge thanks to all developers and maintainers!