Yeah, I&#x27;d call this kind of title outright misleading. Graphene is getting longer support because Google will support the phones for longer.

Also - it&#x27;s an extension of OS updates but these phones were already getting security updates for the same period.Example: Previously, Pixel 6 was to receive 3 years of OS updates and 5 years of security updates. Now it will receive 5 years of both.

The title is ambiguous. It might sound like it is about&gt; &quot;GrapheneOS on Pixels&quot; getting &quot;extended Android support&quot;But it is really about&gt; GrapheneOS (commenting) on &quot;Pixels getting extended Android support&quot;

As a point of clarification: all Pixel phones starting with the 6 were guaranteed 5 years of firmware support. Some phones only had 3 years of OS upgrades (vs 5 years of security patches). Now everything is getting 5 years of OS upgrades.

It’s great that Google is extending the support, and that GrapheneOS can benefit from it.I bought a Pixel 4a specifically for installing GrapheneOS. I used it happily for almost 3 years, until EOL firmware support. The phone worked fine, but I wanted the reassurance of firmware security updates.I was going to get a Pixel 6&#x2F;7 (I forget which was available at the time) to use GrapheneOS again, but I was so annoyed at Google for only supporting firmware for 3 years, that I decided to switch to an iPhone SE.Shortly after this, I believe the next Pixel came out with 5+ years support. I had some regret, but the iPhone SE is OK, and I didn’t want to buy a new phone just for the sake of it.I will probably switch back to GrapheneOS for my next phone, as it really is a great mobile OS. Hopefully the project is still going strong by then.

GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support