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I tried it on my Pixel 10 pro, but I ended up switching back.
Visible mobile's e-sim activation doesn't work by default on Graphene. No matter how intrusive you allow the location service to be, it refuses to believe you're in the US. You need to contact customer service and get them to create a QR code for the transfer. They have an alternate set of instructions for if you can't get the QR code to work, but those alternate instructions are wrong and don't work, and you can get into a frustrating exchange with the sycophantic AI they have assist their chat employees over this. I was switching both my phone and my dad's, and I spent like five hours dealing with this crap, though admittedly some of that was after we decided to switch back to the stock OS.
Blokada 5 didn't work right. The Graphene community suggests instead using an ad-blocking DNS provider like AdGuard, but I don't like that. With Blokada I can easily let things through if necessary, and I don't have to trust any single provider with my DNS queries.
A Google service that I did want working was the spam phone call filtering service, but that wouldn't work either. I didn't spend too much time on this one, though, as the other stuff was starting to pile up at this point.
Visual voicemail wouldn't work. This and the spam filtering both required the Google dialer program, and various elements of play services. It definitely acted like it was set up correctly, but then it just didn't see the messages. This was the issue that made my dad feel it was urgent to switch back.
Duolingo's speaking exercises didn't work either. There was someone in one of the forums who reported that he did have it working for him, but he couldn't remember how he did it, just that it required a lot of fiddling. Apparently this also relies on Google speech-to-text.
I'm sure there are other ways to do all of the same kinds of things, just using different software. But, y'know, I'm accustomed to the phone setup I currently have. The more things I have to change around at once in order to adopt a new tech, the less willing I am to do that. And I just found myself jumping through tons of hoops to disable privacy-protecting features in order to restore basic functionality in systems I used every day, and it just felt like I was doing it all wrong. In the end switching it all back to stock felt like defeat, but also a ton of stuff just automatically worked again. I did get frustrated that Lawnchair didn't export my homescreen setup correctly on my old phone, though, so I had to manually set up all my homescreen links to specific frequently used webpages. Especially since I'd just got through doing that over on Graphene.