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Question about play services (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I'm running GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7 with sandboxed play services, and use some apps that depends on play services like Satispay and my banking app. Today I tried, as an experiment, to deactivate the play service app, and see what happens. Well, they both opens and seem to work, except for a notification saying "Activate Play Services, this app will not work if you don't" Is this notification lying? Or are some functionalitis not working without play services? If yes, which one?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's usually lying. I'd just long press it and hide the notification. If you have an app that's requires Google Play, and you absolutely have to have that app, then you can always make a second user profile and install play services into that. That way you can turn off play services when it's not needed.