Welp, the new search filters make app search even worse. Now you have to deselect anti-features for each search rather than the way it was before when you could set your preference once and forget it.

Shit like "AI chat" and crypto wallets have their own categories now — so you can just deselect them like anti-features and not have to see them, right? Wrong. Categories are hierarchical, not toggleable, so you just get funneled down into subcategories with no optout.

This screenshot only shows the first half of app categories, sorted alphabetically A-M. Because in their infinite wisdom we now have to wade through 17 game types, and other main categories have been divvied up granularly in the same way.

So overall there is even less chance to sort through the growing mass of apps, and no option to filter out stuff you don't want to see or have no interest in. I get it, there are F-droid devs who are really invested in techbro cult shit, and they think everybody need to share in their dumb kool-aid. It's their app, and they designed it for themselves, not for general users.

If I would have read carefully, I would have seen, that they're rolling it out during the next weeks

Open it. Search for f-droid. Click it. Scroll down, click on versions. Choose version 2.0 . Install it. You will force upgrading to the latest.

I'm a Droid-ify user. I just downloaded F-Droid 2 and one feature Droid-ify has that's missing in F-Droid is the builtin repo list. Besides that, great update so far.

It didn't. The search was basic.

What is the usecase for this?

If you are being mugged or phone is stolen, deleting specific apps won't do much.

A government agency looks at parsed stored data, not currently installed apps.

Handing your phone over at a border, they also use data tools, not look at installed app names or something.

The apps still exist on your disk, an extraction tool like Cellebrite can grab them AFAIK.

I am struggling to think of a place where this is genuinely useful as opposed to a restart or Graphene duress code. If they are already in your phone, deleting apps won't do much.

Sounds like a security nightmare to maintain, though.