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If you can get your hands on a pixel, get grapheneOS. If not, get LineageOS or degoogle your phone. With LineageOS you'll have to make do with internet banking instead of banking apps.
Depends on the bank.
Not to be that kind of guy, and I upvoted your comment, but isn't it 'make due'? I might be wrong, however.
This is what I'm struggling with. I use an app-only challenger bank, so I feel a bit stuck unless I change everything...
Well some thing is going to change no matter your struggles. :(
So true. I'm loathed to lose the interest rate, but needs must when the devil drives, and boy is he driving right now.
I had one bank like that but when I called them they were able to disable the app challenge and use text/email instead. The catch was that if I ever opened the app again it was re-enabled.
It's literally ONLY got an app. No web, no branches. They've become quite common and popular in the UK (like Revolut).
Eh I don't think that's an actual bank. There's a lot of unregulated banking adjacent entities that are popping up without regulations or government backed security. Be careful when putting your money in any of these.
Nope, it is FCA/Prudential registered bank. These fintech solutions are very common in the UK.
I've discovered I can access my account online, but cannot send money from there (Zopa).
Monzo and Revolut now have some barebones web implimentation (over a decade after launched).
Atom has no web access at all.
Chase UK doesn't have web access as far as I can tell.
All of the above are registered banks.
That's crazy to me. I only use my local bank at their physical location. I feel like the fact that they exist in close proximity to their customers who can put hands on them gives them a little extra incentive to not do corrupt bullshit.
I have and continue to move around a lot. Many banks don't have physical locations outside of their region. I continue to bank with them though if they're good otherwise.
My joint account with my partner is with a local building society, but branches are shutting left and right in the UK...
Aren't there challenger banks that have website interfaces?
Yep. Monzo implemented an emergency-use website about 5 years ago, Revolut shortly after (and I think they have a desktop app now). I'm with neither (though I can SEE my accounts online, I cannot DO anything with them).