I cannot use a custom ROM as I need apps that sadly enforce the Google Play Integrity API, and no GrapheneOS with Google Play Services dose not passes this check.
I am stuck between an iPhone and a Google Pixel.
I have government apps and a work app on my phone that I do not want to route through a VPN or any other type of proxy(All apps are in the Android privet spaces). The only thing I need to go through a VPN/proxy is my browser (I know brave have a VPN in their browser but I don’t want to use or pay for it and the DuckDuckGo vpn is system wide and the Firefox vpn does not have a Firefox exstention on iOS or android). I need to be able to change countries myself (I don’t think you can do that with Apple’s Private Relay), as I live in the EU and ID checks for social media, other things, and maybe even Wikipedia are coming soon. Android support split tunneling but iOS don’t.
I need to have Facebook Messenger installed on my phone and active all the time (I cannot put it into the private space feature on Android).
I use another service for mail and backup, so iCloud end-to-end encryption is not a plus for me.
I don’t communicate much over SMS, but I would be able to chat over iMessage instead of Facebook Messenger with some contacts.
I have a graphene is phone and I have no problems with play integrity api. I currently have two apps (one banking) that does such calls (I see the notifications) and blocked it for both, they still work without problem. By default, graphene does not block it, btw.
Do normal phone calls work fine? I remember last time I used graphene I had problems with those, but it might just have been the phone itself.
Never had a problem with phone calls. For me, graphene always worked just like a regular android phone but without bloatware.