GrapheneOS-Setup Guide✍🏻

📝 Complete install Guide

• https://grapheneos.org/install/

📖 Practices that I personally try to follow in my setup

• Secure device with strong password.
• Keep devices up to date to ensure I recieve the latest security patches.
• Encrypt sensitive data.
• Do not plug my device into unknown ports.
• Never leave my device unattended.
• Check the legitimacy of the application before installation.
  • verify the name of developers and their actual existence .
  • reading the description of the application and its permissions.
  • reading user reviews & privacy guides.
• Reduce the number of apps .

👥 Profiles

• (Owner #)
• Password protected ✅
• Google Services ✅
• Push Services ✅

Enable "Push services"

You need to install all three apps: Google Services Framework, Google Play Services, and Google Play from GrapheneOS Apps Store .

📢 Important install them before other apps (Proton Mail, Signal etc...) so notifications are "registered" correctly.

⚙️ Settings

Network & Internet

• LTE connection from your carrier ➔ ⚙️ Allow 2G ❌
• Network preferences ➔ Notify for public networks ❌
• eSIM support ✅ (eSIM management no longer requires sandboxed Google Play https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024012600)
• SIMs ➔ Add SIM "+" Scan QR Code
• VPN ➔ Mullvad VPN ➔ ⚙️ Always-on VPN ✅
• VPN > Mullvad VPN ➔ ⚙️ Block connections without VPN ✅

Connected devices

• Bluetooth timeout ✅ (15 seconds if no devices connected)
• Connection preferences ➔ NFC ❌
• Connection preferences ➔ Printing ❌

Apps

• Apps ➔ Customize all installed apps! ✅

Notifications

• App notifications ➔ Disable ❌ notifications for any apps you do not necessarily need it .
• Notification History Disable ❌
• Notifications on lock screen ➔ Disable ❌

Battery

• Battery Percentage ✅
• Battery share ❌

Sound & vibration

• Do Not Disturb ➔ Schedules ➔ Sleeping ✅ use a specified custom time to time start 22:00 end 07:00
• Do not Disturb ➔ People ➔ Calls ➔ Starred Contacts (family members)
• Do not Disturb ➔ People ➔ Calls ➔ Allow repeat callers ❌
• Do not Disturb ➔ People ➔ Messages ➔ None ❌
• Media > Hide media player ❌
• Dial pad tones ❌
• Screen locking sound ❌
• Charging sounds and vibration ❌
• Touch sounds ❌
• Always show icon when in vibration mode ✅

Display

• Adaptive Brightness ❌
• Screen timeout ➔ After 15 seconds of inactivity
• Auto-rotate screen ❌
• Lock Screen ➔ Privacy ➔ Don't show notificationa at all ✅
• Use device controls ❌ (without unlocking your phone)
• Shortcuts ➔ set to None ❌
• Dinamic clock ➔ ❌
• Always show time and info ➔ ❌
• Lock Screen ➔ Wake screen for notifications ❌
• Lock Screen ➔ Lift to check phone ❌
• Lock Screen ➔ Tab to check phone ❌
• Locl Screen ➔ Wake screen for notifications ❌
• Dark Theme ✅
• Night Light ✅
  • Don’t use sunset to sunrise (uses device location data) use a specified custom time to time start 22:00 end 07:00
• Screen saver ❌

Wallpaper and Style

• Lock screen ➔ select Monochrome theme
• Lock screen ➔ Show notifications on the lock screen ❌
• Home screen ➔ select Monochrome theme
• Home screen ➔ Themed icons ✅

Privacy & Security

Device unlock

• Fingerprint unlock ➔ Add Fingerprint +
• Fingerprint ➔ Use for screen unlock ❌
• Durres Password ✅

Screen lock

• Scramble PIN input layout ➔ ✅
• Enhanced PIN privacy ➔ ✅ (disabled animations while entering Pin)
• Lock after screen timeout - 5 sec.
• Power buttin instantly locks ✅
• Allow camera access when locked - ❌

Privacy Controls

• Camera access ➔ ❌ (for apps and services)
• Microphone access ➔ ❌
• Show clipboard access ✅
• Location access ❌

Exploit protection

• Auto reboot ➔ 18 Hours ✅
• USB-C port ➔ Charging-only when locked
• Turn off Wifi automatically - Set to 1 min.
• Turn off Bluetooth automatically - Set to 1 min.

More security and privacy

• Notifications on lock screen ➔ Don't show notifications at all ❌
• Show media on lock screen ❌
• Allow Sensors permissions to apps by default ❌
• Notify about system process crashes ✅
• Lock SIM card ✅

Location

• Use location ❌ (Enable only when is using Maps for navegation)

Safety & emergency

• Wireless emergency alerts - toogle ❌ for operator and presidential

Passwords and accounds

• Passwords, passkeys and accounts ➔ Preferred service (Bitwarden).

System

• Languages & Input ➔ on screen keyboard ➔ GraphineOS Keyboard ➔ Appearance & Layouts ➔ Theme ➔ Material Dark ✅
• Languages & input ➔ Languages - Add +
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Preferences ➔ Auto-capitalisation ❌
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Preferences ➔ Sound on keypress ❌
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Apparience & Layouts ➔ Theme ➔ Material Dark ✅
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Text correction ➔ Auto-correction ❌
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Text correction ➔ Show correction sugguestions ❌
• Languages & input ➔ On-screen keyboard ➔ Text correction > Next-word sugguestions ❌
• Languages & input ➔ Spell checker ❌
• Gestures ➔ Quickly open camera ❌
• Gestures ➔ System navigation ➔ 3-button navigation ✅
• Gestures ➔ System navigation ➔ 3-button navigation ⚙️ Hold home for Assistant ❌
• Gestures ➔ Tab to check phone ❌
• Gestures ➔ Lift to check phone ❌
• Date & time - Toggle Use locale default ❌ (to allow the 24 hour time format to be used)

About Phone

• Device Name ➔ Set "generic name"

🛍️ App stores

• App Store (Default play store of GrapheneOS)
• Accrescent - A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
• Obtainium Get Android app updates straight from the source.
• Google Play Store

📦 Apps

• Web Browser
  • Default Browser
• Camera
  • Default Camera
• Photo and video gallery
  • Default Gallery
• File Manager & Cloud File manager
  • Default file manager
  • Round Sync
• PDF Reader
  • Default pdf reader
• Contacts sync
  • Default contacts app
  • Tuta 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
• Password Manager & 2FA Authenticator App
  • Bitwarden 🇺🇸 + 🇪🇺 servers
• Email Service/Client/Contacts/Calendar
  • Tuta 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
  • Thunderbird 🇺🇸
• Anti-spam email protection
  • Addy 🇬🇧 / android app 🇳🇱
• Online storage
  • Koofr 🇸🇮 🇪🇺
  • Koofr Vault 🇸🇮 🇪🇺
  • Storagebox 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
• Notes E2EE
  • Joplin (Self-hosted) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
• Private Photo cloud backup
  • Ente 🇵🇰
• YouTube frontend
  • NewPipe 🌍
• Video Player/Music player and Streaming
  • VLC Media Player 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
  • Jellyfin (Self-hosted)
• Messaging
  • Default messages app of GrapheneOS
  • WhatsApp 🇺🇸
• VPN
  • Mullvad 🇸🇪 🇪🇺
• File Encryption
  • OpenKeychain 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
  • Cryptomator
• Rss/Feed reader
  • Feeder
• Bookmark Manager
  • Linkding (Self-hosted)
  • Pinkt Unofficial Android client for Linkding
• Private Text, Markdown Editor
  • BeauTyXT
• E2EE Office Suite
  • CryptPad 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
• Navigation Maps
  • Google Maps
• Social
  • Red Reader
• Cryptocurrency wallet
  • Tangem 🇨🇭
• Hardware & System information
  • Cpu-info 🇵🇱 🇪🇺
• Translator
  • Deepl 🇩🇪🇪🇺
• Audio Recorder
  • Fossify Voice Recorder 🌍
• Terminal emulator
  • Termux
• Shoping
  • https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/ 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 - (onion) - Buy coupons for privacy-friendly services with Monero or Bitcoin...
  • https://shop.proxysto.re/ 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 - Get hardware, books, privacy gadgets and physical voucher cards for Mullvad VPN.
  • https://shopinbit.com/ 🇲🇨 🇪🇺 - Europes biggest Bitcoin Store, with over 300,000 products.

My home screen after setup

🎴 Screenshot of my phone as of 30-11-24

Accessories

✔ TODO

• Webcam cover
• Upscreen privacy screen
• Pixel 6 pro protective case
• A Hardware Security Key - Yubikey

📢 Important! To work is needed Sandboxed Google Play to be installed!

• Faraday Sleeves for Phones
• Microphone Blocker

Additional Resources

GOS Official channel

• https://grapheneos.org
• https://grapheneos.org/articles
• https://discuss.grapheneos.org

GrapheneOS Info app

App through which you can get information about the latest releases of GrapheneOS, links to our community spaces, and details on how to make donations .