GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, says it can now bring its software to the Pixel 11 series. Its Android 17 QPR2 port is nearly complete, and Pixel 11 support is to follow once that build has launched for the project’s other devices.
The Pixel 11 has been missing from GrapheneOS’s list since launch. The project says it had a port nearly done about a week after the phones went on sale, then had to cancel it because the hardware lacked MTE, short for Memory Tagging Extension, a feature that helps catch memory-safety bugs. Google’s QPR2 update for Android 17 now supplies that support, and GrapheneOS reports that the feature works with its own QPR2 build.
No date has been given. In its post on X, the project puts Motorola’s Signature 27 first in the queue after QPR2. That phone, which Motorola priced at $1,599, is the other handset the project is working on. Because the Pixel 11 work was finished long ago, the team says the Pixel build can go out right behind it.
QPR stands for quarterly platform release, the mid-cycle updates Google ships between Android’s yearly versions. GrapheneOS is building its next release on QPR2. MTE tags blocks of memory so that a program touching the wrong block is stopped, and its absence is what stopped the earlier Pixel 11 port.
For anyone who bought a Pixel 11 planning to switch, the order of release is the thing to watch: QPR2 for existing devices, then the Signature 27, then the Pixel 11.
