Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be?

Guster@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 197 points –

Back in the day - rooting Android phones and installing custom ROMs were such a big part of Android. I remember so well using titanium backup and Greenify and Cyanogenmod and the list goes on.

Is it still necessary to root in 2023 though?

I have been on vanilla Android without root access for the past couple of years and at this point most root features have made it into the vanilla Android OS. What are your thoughts?

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I don't root anymore, not since I switched to GrapheneOS. It breaks the Android security model. On GrapheneOS it's like fortifying a castle and then blowing a wide open hole in the wall. Just didn't make any sense.

Same here.

Anyway, it's not an arms race against the vendor anymore on GrapheneOS. Root is just a toggle switch I control, now.