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GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Exactly, it's not only about fighting Google, it's also about setting a better, more open standard for the rest of the market.
Recently my bank has rolled out a new mobile app now relying on Google wallet for NFC payment. I was able to use NFC payment on GrapheneOS on the old app, I can't on the new one. The online banking stuff still works (for now) but no more mobile payment for me. I didn't sign a fucking contract with Google, why would I hand over my payment data to them !
You need to call your bank and the media. Word has to get out.
My bank hands out these weird little plastic cards like it's 2016 or something.
I mean, a bank is a bank, they are all very similar. Unless you have an extremely good interest rate on it, I would just close the account and go elsewhere. Make sure to tell them on the way out that's why.
Alternatively you can just transfer funds to another app and keep using their bank and use the other account as the NFC payment one but, that's too complicated for my tastes.
How would I know which bank to go too ? It's comes down to the details of how they implement their phone app. I don't think you would find this information anywhere.
I mean, I know a lot of people don't like doing it anymore but calling and asking has a fairly decent chance of working if online gives no details.
Personally I'm unsure how a bank could even force NFC to go through a specific provider, mine has always just issued virtual card numbers whenever I enrolled, And if the bank itself didn't support the provider automatically, I always called the bank to manually approve getting the virtual number. it's a little confusing to me that your bank even blocks the ability to in the first place. I would have thought you would have been able to use any mobile wallet that works on Graphene OS. Being said those are limited last I knew
edit: rereading it. I see what you mean. You mean through your bank's app as a native solution. Yeah, you're just gonna have to call the banks for that one. I would assume that customer service would definitely know whether or not it's through Google Pay or through their own system.