An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
Banking and finance is the one area where Graphene falls over for me in the UK, on a Pixel 9.
In short, my bank’s app - Lloyds - doesn’t work on Graphene. At all. I have Play Services sandboxed, and I’ve tried all the tricks, but nope. No dice. The website works in the browser just fine, but is kind of a pain in the arse to have to manually log in to whenever I want to use it.
And, as with all Graphene phones regardless of bank, Wallet does not allow registration of any payment cards. Neither my credit nor debit cards work. Store reward cards do though, so that’s something.
Workarounds for me are currently:
a Monzo card registered with my Garmin watch,
my bank card saved in the Lidl app, which can be used for payments
a magsafe wallet that holds my debit card
I’m led to believe that the Curve app can be used for contactless payments, however, I somehow failed the ID check when I tried to register with them, and their customer service is APPALLING. It’s been five months, and I’m still no closer to actually getting hold of anyone who might be able to help. Also, Curve was recently bought by Lloyds, so it seems likely that that option will be closed in the foreseeable future.
Ultimately though, it’s fine, and the benefits outweigh those few drawbacks.
Banking and finance is the one area where Graphene falls over for me in the UK, on a Pixel 9.
In short, my bank’s app - Lloyds - doesn’t work on Graphene. At all. I have Play Services sandboxed, and I’ve tried all the tricks, but nope. No dice. The website works in the browser just fine, but is kind of a pain in the arse to have to manually log in to whenever I want to use it.
And, as with all Graphene phones regardless of bank, Wallet does not allow registration of any payment cards. Neither my credit nor debit cards work. Store reward cards do though, so that’s something.
Workarounds for me are currently:
I’m led to believe that the Curve app can be used for contactless payments, however, I somehow failed the ID check when I tried to register with them, and their customer service is APPALLING. It’s been five months, and I’m still no closer to actually getting hold of anyone who might be able to help. Also, Curve was recently bought by Lloyds, so it seems likely that that option will be closed in the foreseeable future.
Ultimately though, it’s fine, and the benefits outweigh those few drawbacks.