Full Google Experience

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I am interested to hear from people who use Graphene with Google Play and log into their Google account. What has your experience been so far regarding app functionality and do you feel confident using your device this way?

Hulk

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Hello!

There are actually quite a lot of people that use GrapheneOS as a hardened version of Stock Android.
On GrapheneOS pretty much all Android apps work perfectly fine with Sandboxed Google Play with just a few exceptions:

Google Wallet/Pay (requires GrapheneOS to be whitelisted by Google)
Android Auto (requires deep level system integration and privileged Play Services to be present on the device)

Here's an incomplete list of popular Google apps that work perfectly fine on GrapheneOS (in no particular order):
Play Store, Chrome, Gboard, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Recorder, etc.

Hope this helps

unwat

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I have a secondary profile that I use for pretty much everything with many Google things installed and in use. I've also used a lot of other Google apps for work on a different secondary profile. My experience has been basically the same as what Hulk said.

Blastoidea

Sorry, I can’t help …… I’m not that trusting.

billinmtl

I've used Google Messages without play services installed. Works fine. Cannot use RCS messaging feature but otherwise works without issue.