GrapheneOS Coming to Flagship Motorola Smartphones in 2027

The team behind GrapheneOS — a privacy- and security-focused operating system built on Android — has announced that top-tier Motorola smartphones will gain support for it in 2027. The news was shared in a post by the project on the Mastodon social network.

Until now, GrapheneOS has officially run only on Google Pixel devices: the developers explained this by pointing out that these are the devices that provide the necessary level of hardware protection and the ability to correctly reflash the bootloader while still preserving full system integrity verification. Adding models from another manufacturer to the list would mark a notable step for the project.

The published excerpt gives no details about exactly which Motorola devices will be among the supported ones — it only mentions the flagship segment and a target of 2027. The hardware requirements that GrapheneOS traditionally imposes remain high, which is why the choice is limited to the higher-end models.

The news sparked lively discussion in the community: on Hacker News the post gathered more than three hundred points and nearly two hundred comments. For users who value independence from Google's ecosystem yet do not want to be confined to a single smartphone lineup, the expansion of the GrapheneOS hardware base is a long-awaited event.

Source: Hacker News