There’s no GrapheneOS for Pixel 11 phones because Google cut a key security feature

The GrapheneOS team suggests Google may have dropped this key security feature to ‘save money’. There’s no GrapheneOS for Pixel 11 phones because Google cut a key security feature. GrapheneOS developers said this was due to Google’s new phones lacking support for the MTE security feature.

The team says they might have to skip the Pixel 11 phones as a result and shift focus entirely to Motorola devices. GrapheneOS is the best custom ROM if you want a secure, private experience. Unfortunately, Google recently made it harder for developers to build custom ROMs for Pixel phones.

Now, it turns out that the Pixel 11 phones might not get GrapheneOS at all due to a missing security feature. The GrapheneOS team announced on Mastodon that they were unable to complete GrapheneOS for Google Pixel 11 phones: We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We’re unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware.