AFAIK MicroG doesn't send any data to Google unless you explicitly tell it to. Here are some situations where you might want to do that: - You might want to en

AFAIK MicroG doesn't send any data to Google unless you explicitly tell it to. Here are some situations where you might want to do that: - You might want to enable the Google Cloud Messaging feature inside MicroG, so that your apps can receive push notifications just like they would on a regular Google phone. - SafetyNet. If you want some app to work that requires Google SafetyNet, your phone will necessarily have to communicate with the Google servers. MicroG provides functionality to do that. (Though, if you're worried about your phone's security, I strongly advise against using this feature because SafetyNet essentially requires the phone to download and run a binary blob from the Google servers.) - If you want to install apps from the Play Store you will have to install the Google Play Store app or at least some open-source alternative like YalpStore or Aurora Store both of which will obviously download the .apks from and therefore connect to the Google servers. However, this has nothing to do with MicroG per se. Anyway, you decide all this for yourself. If you don't want your phone to connect to Google at all, that's perfectly possible. UPDATE: Indeed, I just checked and found a setting in MicroG saying "Allow connecting to Google servers. If disabled, all connections to Google servers usually done by microG will be denied. This overrides service-specific settings."