Motorola to ship GrapheneOS on flagship phones starting in 2027

At Mobile World Congress, Motorola announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to offer GrapheneOS on future Motorola smartphones beginning in 2027. The company said the move is intended as an added option focused on privacy and security, not a replacement for Android.

GrapheneOS is a non‑profit project founded in 2014 that builds on the Android Open Source Project. It adds hardened app sandboxes and controls for network and sensor access, bundles privacy‑focused apps such as the Vanadium browser, and primarily uses permissive open‑source licensing (with MIT for its own code, upstream AOSP code retaining Apache 2.0, and Linux kernel portions under GPLv2).

Most Google Play apps can be used on GrapheneOS by installing them through the GrapheneOS App Store, where they run in isolated sandboxes.

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