matchboxbananasynergy Sandboxed Google Play can be installed in any user profile, including the Owner profile.

In fact, features like eSIM activation require you to have Sandboxed Google Play on the Owner profile.

billbadger As Senor Matchboxbananasynergy said the Play Services can be installed ANYWHERE, many users decide such as myself to keep it in an isolated dedicated profile because I require to log in with my OG Google Account for Family purposes, such as to maintain the shared Family Library, Family Link etc, I also keep my banking app in there as well as some other things which allows me to keep it at rest before and after use fully encrypted and out of the way preventing unnecessary use or information flow succumbing to the sin of convenience.

Different strokes for different folks,

Options and freedom like that are reasons to love GrapheneOS and what sets it apart.

18 days later

Just to thank the contributors to my original post and to report back that my Pixel3 with GOS is now fully working the way I want it to, including Signal and my banking app - which is a great bonus.

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MetropleX In this case, install molly instead if you don't want to use SMS with signal

2 months later

Galt007 I'm having the same challenges... I keep getting sms from messenger in my profile 2 but I'm getting signal in my owner profile where I have signal as my default sms.

I will also likely just get rid of profile 2 and stick with my owner profile - though I may want to use my work profile(shelter) for certain apps (e.g.: banking)

MetropleX The only way to use SMS across profiles is to use the default AOSP Messaging App it's an upstream AOSP bug and not related to GOS. Hulk is indeed correct relating to the SMS and Signal advice. I use it for both but remain acutely aware of the lock icon on the send button.

You must use stock messaging as your default SMS app if you want SMS across profiles.

    MetropleX Yes thanks - I saw that.

    It has been a good 'learning' experience - setting up profiles and determining what I wanted where.

    For now - it seems that multiple user profiles aren't going to work great for me. So I am using my Owner profile for messaging (signal), camera, phone, Google FI and any 'google sign-ins', and I am using my work profile for all other apps (for the most part).

    This seems to work pretty well (for me) - but one thing GREAT about GOS is the ease of creating/removing profiles and testing things out.

    kopolee11 Is it a like-like replacement for signal? (meaning - I can install molly and remove signal - with the same end result?)

    Is it a standalone messenger or a dialer as well?

    4 months later

    I don't think it's being maintained either, which is why I'm hesitant to recommend it.

    billinmtl Yes, it seem unmaintained, yet the best (open source in F-Droid) SMS app I could find.