Mastodawn

Guster Aug 3, 2023

Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be?

Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be? - Lemmy.world

Back in the day - rooting Android phones and installing custom ROMs were such a big part of Android. I remember so well using titanium backup and take and Greenify and cyanogenmod and the list goes on. Is it still necessary to root in 2023 though? I have been vanilla Android without root access and at this point most root features have made it into the vanilla Android OS. What are your thoughts?

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ahornsirup

I haven't felt a need to root a phone in years. These days you will get a usable UI and UX with basically all major brands and adblock can be done without root, so it's just not worth the hassle trying to hide the fact that you're rooted from banking apps etc. At least as far as I'm concerned, I'm sure that some people still see a benefit in rooting.