Outdated phones purchased before 2025

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Wireguard → Above VPN

If you bought your phone before early 2024, please uninstall the Wireguard app, because there is no use for it anymore. Similarly, if you bought it before November 2024, we recommend to uninstall the Tailscale app and replace it with the newly released Above VPN app. It can be used with an active Above Suite subscription.  

 


Outdated system apps & VPN

If you haven't used or updated your phone in a while, consider following all the steps outlined in this video.  

Topics covered:

  • Uninstall Wireguard / Tailscale - when phone can't connect to internet here is our guide to set up the new Above VPN app

  • Update the operating system & system apps from GrapheneOS 'App Store'

  • Update user apps from F-Droid

To update specific outdated apps to an improved replacement, please follow our next video lesson.


For more info and other app replacements, please refer to our recent blog post (March 2025)


Simple Apps → Fossify

From Orange to Green: Fossify is the continuation of Simple Mobile Tools, which was sold out by the main developer (as discussed here).

The good news is that Co-developer Naveen Singh decided to pick up the project under the new name Fossify!

Settings and data can easily be transferred from the respective Simple app to the Fossify equivalent using the Import / Export functionality of each app.

 

The apps affected here are the SMS Messenger, Calendar, Gallery, Notes, Voice Recorder.


FlorisBoard / OpenBoard → HeliBoard

HeliBoard has been officially released on F-Droid. Currently it is arguably the best FOSS keyboard out there. It also works well in conjuction with FUTO Voice Input.

If you bought your phone BEFORE May of 2024, you may not have the new re-release of HeliBoard installed.

Uninstall HeliBoard if it has the old logo still and re-install it via F-Droid, as shown in the video.


Fossy Weather → Breezy Weather

For quite a while we used to put Geometric Weather on Above Phones as the weather app, but that project has been abandoned. The good news is that it basically morphed into a new, improved weather app called Breezy Weather.

Just follow the video to get it set up!


Neo Store → F-Droid Basic

Neo Store is an alternative to F-Droid, but nowadays we would recommend to switch to F-Droid Basic altogether.


This video guide shows how to fully replace Neo Store with F-Droid Basic, including adding all the recommended repositories.

Learn how to set up F-Droid Basic - automatic app updates