GrapheneOS aims to maintain update support for at least 5 years (from their FAQ). GrapheneOS still supports Pixel 5 for example (released 5 years, 8 months ago), Google stopped updating that model in Nov. 2023. GrapheneOS likely won’t maintain support for older models forever, but for older devices they can extend the life a good few years past Google’s end of support.
ETA: In fairness to Google, their support window on newer models is a lot better. From https://endoflife.date/pixel, for Pixel 8, 9 & 10 series they’ve committed to 7 years of Android updates. My Pixel 7 is only getting 4 years of updates, hence my interest in GrapheneOS.
It was originally supposed to be 3 + 2 years of security updates only, then got bumped to 5 years of full updates when the 6 series reached the end of their 3 year support (I think that was also the time Google first updated the kernel on the Pixels).
Or if you don’t count the initial year, it’s just 6 years for 8+
Doesn’t matter. I haven’t tried Graphene yet because I needed to keep the phone for corporate use. Now that it will be obsoleted, I canbtry Graphene, even ifbuts an older build.
Given that the goal of GrapheneOS is security OS, and not the ability to run it on anything and everything, I would expect them to phase out support for old devices very shortly after the official support stops — primarily due to the fact that security fixes for those devices won’t be coming.
I guess my old 6 Pro is finally making the jump to GrapheneOS.
They usually drop support after Google does no?
GrapheneOS aims to maintain update support for at least 5 years (from their FAQ). GrapheneOS still supports Pixel 5 for example (released 5 years, 8 months ago), Google stopped updating that model in Nov. 2023. GrapheneOS likely won’t maintain support for older models forever, but for older devices they can extend the life a good few years past Google’s end of support.
ETA: In fairness to Google, their support window on newer models is a lot better. From https://endoflife.date/pixel, for Pixel 8, 9 & 10 series they’ve committed to 7 years of Android updates. My Pixel 7 is only getting 4 years of updates, hence my interest in GrapheneOS.
Or if you don’t count the initial year, it’s just 6 years for 8+
Doesn’t matter. I haven’t tried Graphene yet because I needed to keep the phone for corporate use. Now that it will be obsoleted, I canbtry Graphene, even ifbuts an older build.
Given that the goal of GrapheneOS is security OS, and not the ability to run it on anything and everything, I would expect them to phase out support for old devices very shortly after the official support stops — primarily due to the fact that security fixes for those devices won’t be coming.
Just updated my pixel 6a to 17 through graphene 💪
So get there while you still can, GrapheneOS is awesome :)
While we can? What happens and when, so that we won’t be able to?