Pretty sure this is an illegal practice and can be ended by pressuring the bank a bit (just tell the largest newspapers, the press coverage should make them fix it to not look like idiots).

fwiw you can get around that by rooting your phone, installing lsposed, and installing the "no accessibility services" xposed module.

hell of a fucking thing just to have basic fucking functionality on your phone, but c'est la vie

Online banking, extra validation during online purchases, online government services, validating mobile payment, and more.

And technically it's not government ID but rather organized by banks. There is a government organized one(at least I think it's government organized) as well but only really works for government services.

Banking and plenty of online transactions require it too. Login to government services and anything healthcare, pharmacy, social security and so on. For some there are cumbersome alternatives with two step validation and codes by email or text messages that may or may not work while electronic ID is a thumb on the phone.

Note that it is not a government ID, a lot of correspondence with the government; taxes, health care, ..., is used for it. But it is made by a cartel of seven swedish banks.

I wonder how hard it'd be to flash android on a pi zero or similar to display only the ID forever. I'd never put something like that on my phone.

Would Android running in an LXC conatiner suffice? That’s what SailfishOS offers

I've tried SailfishOS AppSupport and Waydroid and the FOSS Waydroid seems to work better, so I'd try that.

Also, it runs on many more devices.

Jolla uses a downstream kernel and when the SoC manufacturer drops supports, usually after just a few years, you will no longer get updates with it.

That's why devices with mainline kernel support are great, you can use them until they literally fall apart.

For example Fairphone has devices that are well supported with a mainline kernel and those are repairable as well.

Also, keep in mind there are very few SailfishOS apps, compared to just regular Linux apps that run well with Phosh or KDE Plasma Mobile. You can often just use the exact same software as on the desktop, which is neat.

On SailfishOS, you'd probably have to make extensive use of the prorietary Android app support, which is just an LXC container running Android.

That way you'd run a downstream kernel with a Linux userland and an Android container on top instead of just a regular Linux system.

Grapheme is generally good, Unfortunately they have very poor device support. They currently only support Pixel devices with reportedly adding some select Motorola devices later next year. They seem to refuse to branch out to more open hardware.

Do you mean phones without unlocked bootloaders ? errrrmmmmmm you can't

Check the LineageOS device suport list : if your device was ever supported, you cand build for yourself (provided you have enough horsepower), or request an unofficial build in the iodéOS forums

Why not ?