Mobile data disabled for non-owner account?

squart

Pixel 8
Google Fi

I have also experienced this issue
Also unable to send/receive sms via default Messenger app while on non-owner Profile

de0u

phillip Thanks for reporting back!

squart doogle Does that work for you as well?

phillip

OMG thank goodness I'm not the only one

grapheneos-enthusiast

phillip are you using private DNS feature? try disabling it may work

phillip

grapheneos-enthusiast Thank you very much for the suggestion. I tried disabling private DNS but it not have an effect.

doogle

Same problem here too.
Google Fi
Pixel 8
Tried disabling private DNS. No luck.

phillip

This morning I dialed in to a zoom call since mobile data isn't working. I was getting disconnected from the call consistently after about 2-3 minutes

phillip

I am delighted to report I found a fix for this!

Settings -> users -> [select user] -> install available apps -> toggle the radio selector for Google Fi

This is it! Note that for me, I didn't need to sign in to the app on the guest account, only have it installed. Hope it helps others 👍

Elevate1736

+1, also experiencing this. Pixel 9 Pro, Google Fi, Release 2025032500. I started experiencing this after Release 2025030900.

I tried the suggested solution above from phillip to install Google Fi in other non-owner user accounts, and that seems to have fixed the issue for now. This seems like an odd fix, and it definitely had different behavior prior to this. I see that there is an issue on Github tracking the same problem: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/5059

squart

de0u
I tried to toggle Google Fi for the second profile and had no luck. Tried a few times and did few reboots. Will keep looking for a solution...

phillip

squart

What does this mean "tried to toggle Google Fi for the second profile and had no luck". Can you give us more details on exactly what you tried, and what was the result?

squart

phillip

Second profile: uninstalled Google Fi, then reinstalled it.

There have been some OS updates since this issue started and I am not receiving SMS on second profile intermittently but still have to switch to main/admin profile in order to send sms or make calls.

linuxmodder

squart See here where you need to enable that functionality.

https://imgur.com/a/UcQPRDb

cymor

Thank you! Installing via the settings worked for me. Before, I tried installing GoogleFi in that User account from Google Play store and logging in, but that didn't work.