If you are using a GrapheneOS and CalyxOS phone, your device will automatically, regularly notify and prompt you to update the software when releases updates and/or security patches are available.

Nevertheless, if you want to manually check if there are updates available to your phone, here’s how to do it:

Open Settings, scroll down and select System or About Phone, then click on System Updates.
Your device will now automatically check for updates. If an update is available, you’ll see the option to download and install it.

Tips before installing an update:

• Backup Important Data
• Ensure your device has sufficient battery charge (at least 50%) before starting the update.

Keeping your device updated is crucial for maintaining security and performance, so regularly check for updates!

Good day community, as the most careful of you pointed out, we had recently dropped the Pixel 4a 5G from our offer; the reason behind this is that the device is now of a certain age, and there are plenty of newer models that can be degoogled instead.

We received, however, repeated requests to have the device back in our lineup - the Pixel 4a proves, to date, to be the most popular budget device so far.

We like to listen to the requests and suggestions we receive, and hence we added this device back to our offering.

With all that said, we do highlight to any potential buyer of the Pixel 4a 5G that this model is now labelled as "Extended Support" by the Graphene OS project; this will mean that updates of the operating system for the Pixel 4a 5G will last only up to a certain point in the future.

Once the updates are over you will be able to keep on using the device normally for many months, even years, but you will get error messages like this one:

The screenshot above is taken from a Pixel 3 (blueline) that is already out of extended support. It is to prove to you that after extended support the phone works no problem, it just stops updating.

We hope you will find this helpful, do reach us at info@de-googled.com if you have questions.

Good day community, we would like to share a very interesting review of degoogled phones - you can watch it here.

We find it very interesting as the reviewer is talking about pros but also cons of using these sort of devices.

We are especially in agreement with the following:

1. Have multiple devices, dedicate one (degoogled) device to communication and a separate device for other stuff (banking, social, etc)
2. Try to use WiFi only if you can - sim cards (and the carriers behind them) do collect information and assign unique identifiers.

A couple of years ago we posted this article in our blog.

It seems appropriate that we follow up on this topic.

You can make sure that our phones are genuine by using the Auditor app, an app maintained by the Graphene community (for more information on it please see here).

Lately we received a lot of requests on how to map an e-sim to our Graphene OS phones. Using these phones with an e-sim is absolutely doable, and perhaps advisable, if you use the appropriate providers.

To use one of our Grapehene OS phones with an esim please follow the steps explained in this video here. (thanks go to youtube creator @sideofburritos for this excellent video)

The phones main focus is privacy and security to protect the user and prevent tracking by third parties. The features of the phones make the device harder to hack, easier to use, and far less likely to get a virus.

The operating systems run on the phones is open source and community-based; therefore, you're much less  likely to be exposed to security issues due to zero-days or intentional backdoors.

Click HERE to download the full guide.

We link below a review article writtten by Kevin Kabeci on the Samsung 10+ degoogled phone.

https://medium.com/futura-creative/the-best-de-googled-phone-review-samsung-galaxy-s10-c3a75166b737

There are many reasons why owning unlocked phones is essential in today’s day and age. These devices allow you to get the latest phone technology at affordable prices without being tied to specific carriers or manufacturers. The best thing about them is that you're not tracked by Google either!

To learn more about the types of phones that offer this kind of privacy, continue reading the article below. We will talk about the best-operating systems for De-Googled phones, such as the Lineage OS, Graphene OS, and Calyx OS.

With the increasing popularity of smartphones and mobile apps, it seems important to have some control over our data. To help you put your mind at ease, there are some phones with operating systems that make you as private as you can possibly be in this day and age. 

We here provide some statistics that we have collected throughout the past year about what works and what doesn't. Hopefully you'll find this helpful - it was certainly helpful to us: