You can’t really sideload at least not in a way that it makes your phone safe like it’s possible with GrapheneOS.
Imo iPhones are an alright lazy choice. It’s a little bit more private than vanilla android and you get E2EE, PGP encryption support and some extras like their VPN like thingy that masks your traffic. Also apps are sandboxed so they can’t track you as easily. It’s not like this will stop anyone who’s really after you but even regular law enforcement will have a hard time getting your data unless you unlock your phone for them, I know this from experience.
That being said, you will still need to trust Apple to stay the way they are currently, plus they’re not gonna go out of their way to protect you, they’ll obey the law because they’re corpos.
For really sensitive stuff I’d still keep something like a pixel with GrapheneOS without play services and without ever logging into any personal accounts. Might make sense to physically remove the camera and microphone too if you’re really worried.
You can’t really sideload at least not in a way that it makes your phone safe like it’s possible with GrapheneOS.
Imo iPhones are an alright lazy choice. It’s a little bit more private than vanilla android and you get E2EE, PGP encryption support and some extras like their VPN like thingy that masks your traffic. Also apps are sandboxed so they can’t track you as easily. It’s not like this will stop anyone who’s really after you but even regular law enforcement will have a hard time getting your data unless you unlock your phone for them, I know this from experience.
That being said, you will still need to trust Apple to stay the way they are currently, plus they’re not gonna go out of their way to protect you, they’ll obey the law because they’re corpos.
For really sensitive stuff I’d still keep something like a pixel with GrapheneOS without play services and without ever logging into any personal accounts. Might make sense to physically remove the camera and microphone too if you’re really worried.