Motorola announces partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation

Motorola has entered a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to "bring cutting-edge security to everyday users across the globe."

The Lenovo-owned company said that this new partnership will allow for long-term collaboration on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility. It combines GrapheneOS's engineering with Motorola's own security experience and Lenovo's ThinkShield solutions. The two organizations will work together on joint research, software, and security, especially on mobile platforms, with more details to come as the partnership develops. Here's what a GrapheneOS spokesperson said:

We are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS’s industry‑leading privacy and security‑focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone

 

This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.

In addition to the new partnership, Motorola unveiled Moto Analytics, a platform for IT administrators to get a real-time view of device performance across their managed fleets. The tool provides deep operational insights, from app stability to battery health, and goes far beyond typical access control.

A new feature, Private Image Data, is coming to the Moto Secure app. This tool automatically removes sensitive metadata, like location and device information, from all new photos taken on the device. It runs in the background to strip some of the private data attached to your images.

GrapheneOS is a security-hardened mobile operating system built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). For years, this heavily modified, "de-Googled" version of Android has been confined to Google Pixel devices because the project's developers maintained that only Pixels met their stringent hardware security requirements for features like verified boot and firmware updates.

Last October, the GrapheneOS project confirmed plans to expand its support to a major Android device maker, signaling an end to the Pixel-only era by seeking a hardware partner that could meet its exacting standards. The organization had previously said it would not have its own custom hardware until at least 2027 because devices slated for 2026 lacked critical security technologies like hardware memory tagging.

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Posted Tuesday 3 March 2026 at 10:21 am AEST (my time).

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