Installed #GrapheneOS several days ago on my Pixel 8. It works great without any Google services! https://grapheneos.org/

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    3 hours ago

    Yes, I’ve never had any trouble with apps being able to get GPS location without Google Play Services. Obviously, you won’t get that Google location timeline because you don’t have Google Play Services or Google anything on your device. But any GPS app will work just fine.

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      55 minutes ago

      Don’t wanna crash the party, but I tried the 3a and recently the 6a with Graphene, and while everything else worked really well, Location actually didn’t work at all. Everytime when I wanted to get my location, I needed to wait about 5-15 minutes for it to find it. This was actually one of the reasons to not use it as a daily driver.

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        49 minutes ago

        Either graphene has gotten a lot worse or something because I used to have a Pixel 3A with graphene and things worked very well. Although I have been using lineage OS on other devices a lot recently.

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      3 hours ago

      Thanks for the answer!

      The google location timeline convinced me to get my ass off of Google more than anything so not having it is a big plus

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        3 hours ago

        I will warn you that apps like Uber and Lyft might not work. But that’s not because of the location. It’s because those apps absolutely seem to require Google Play services to even boot. Pretty much as soon as you open those apps, they will crash.