# Downside of using Google apps on GrapheneOS?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/downside-of-using-google-apps-on-grapheneos/17132
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-02-29T01:20:12Z
**Posts:** 17
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## Post 11 by @FlipSid — 2024-02-29T17:17:42Z

No Google Messages is not a privacy respecting app.  
For people on GrapheneOS who have worries, just don’t allow Network Connections.  
In my case I want the RCS messaging because:

> [@Simple Mobile Tools to be bought by ZipoApps](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simple-mobile-tools-to-be-bought-by-zipoapps/15337/58):
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> Google Messages, the reason is that if another person has it, the messages will be upgraded to RCS and E2EE. It is now the [default on Samsung devices](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-message-and-the-rcs/15388/7). The spam filter works pretty well at killing random spam messages too. No other open source messenger has any kind of E2EE and most of them are unmaintained eg [qksms](https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/commits/master) (Feb 2021), [silence](https://git.silence.dev/Silence/Silence-Android/-/tree/master) (Sep 2019) etc. SMSes can be backed up easily on device with [sms-ie](https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie), which also supports MMS message components unlike QKSMS or Silence.

But other people other priorities :slight_smile:  
The apps from Google are all not privacy respecting, that’s one part.  
The other part is sandboxed google play Services.  
These are 2 different things from my understanding.

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