> I never got to try GrapheneOS because a single unresolved doubt: does its Camera app benefit from the same image improvement features that the stock camera ha

> I never got to try GrapheneOS because a single unresolved doubt: does its Camera app benefit from the same image improvement features that the stock camera has? Our Camera app has hardware-accelerated HDR+ and Night mode on current Pixels. Pixel Camera can be used on GrapheneOS for the full feature set it provides. It has the same hardware acceleration on GrapheneOS unless you toggle it off via our toggle for giving a specific list of Google apps special access to the TPU, image processing accelerator, etc. as Pixels do. Other apps can use these features too but via more limited standard APIs. The main thing you lose on GrapheneOS is that certain financial apps choose to ban using a non-Google-certified OS which we think is a violation of anti-competition laws/regulations and intend to pursue it as a legal and/or regulatory issue. It should be possible to run all Android apps from the Play Store on any OS maintaining a comparable security model, and Google shouldn't get to have veto power over this as they do now. The certification rules for OEMs forbid implementing some of the privacy/security features we provide so it's clearly an unacceptable system even if it was open to us to get certified. It'd also be ridiculous to have each release delayed by third party certification if that was required. > Especially now that Pixels started shipping with hardware chipsets specifically designed to accelerate certain kinds of image processing, this is a feature that's quite important to me not to lose when changing systems. The hardware accelerated image processing and general purpose neural net acceleration via the TPU fully works on GrapheneOS. Certain fancy AI features can't be used via our optional sandboxed Google Play feature because it's a set of regular sandboxed apps and we didn't provide toggles for granting it privileged access for niche functionality. As a simple example, the wake via hotword feature in Google Assistant can't be used because that's not a capability available to regular apps with a normal permission. We could implement our own wake system or make a toggle for it, it's just not a priority.