IndiaAIFounders — The Pixel 11 may not be a lost cause for GrapheneOS after all

TL;DR

GrapheneOS found MTE hardware support in the Pixel 11 after earlier concerns.
The discovery could keep GrapheneOS support alive for Google’s latest phones.
Developers are testing MTE performance before deciding whether support for Pixel 11 is viable.

GrapheneOS appeared ready to walk away from the Pixel 11 series just a few days ago. The privacy-focused Android project even warned against buying the phones after discovering they lacked hardware support for Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a key security feature. But that warning may have been premature: GrapheneOS developers have now found that Pixel 11 phones do have MTE hardware support, giving the project a potential path toward supporting Google’s latest flagships.

GrapheneOS shared the news on X, and they made this discovery after Google released Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4, the first beta version to support the Pixel 11 series. Developers examining the new firmware found references indicating the phones have the necessary MTE capability, despite earlier software suggesting otherwise.

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