Making competent users wait a day to install apps they want to install is ridiculous
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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Depending on how competent you're talking, ADB still works fine.
It's a one-time wait when you first enable the feature, not a wait each time you want to install something, but yes.
What happens when you turn off / on developer options? I read some people had to because of their bank apps refusing to work if developer options is on.
Personnally I hate what they are doing, it's not going to protect more and surely it a steps to allow removal to side load in future. I don't think it would fly if Microsoft was doing that on Windows...
That is even more stupid.
For now.
Hoping there might be some adb command to bypass this
But you need developer options to enable ADB... and they are locked behind the 24h period.
Better than I expected.
But I also worry this is the first twist of the dial to boil the frog.
announcing something absurd then dialing it back to something better in comparison seems like a common strategy to making things worse lately.
this change alone would probably have backlash, but since the alternative was androidpocalypse users are relieved instead...
Yeah, honestly for me I'm going to run graphene until postmarketOS matures or someone gets VOLTE working for ports for sailfish so all I want is devs to keep deving until I can move
This is a huge relief, for me.
It means that I can keep my current phone until it dies, which should give Linux phone enough time to mature that I never buy an Android phone again!
It sounds like Linux phone is close to being "ready" as a daily driver, at least for power users. Reliable VoLTE sounds like it's not quite there, which is necessary for me (living in a country with only VoLTE calling).
It's the 24 hour wait portion that makes me continue to think Google is not acting in good faith. Any or all of the following steps - hiding it behind developer options, a warning about being coached, and even the restart to disconnect any live sessions, I could buy as reasonable efforts to protect people. 24 hours is ridiculous though. They also didn't seem to address what happens if you factory reset your phone or get a new one. Would it be a days wait each time? A lot of us will be fine with adb during that time period, but an "intermediate" user who likes f-droid but isn't comfortable with the adb command line shouldn't have to wait a day to install their apps.
One day! Are they stupid???
Of course this is all for security reasons so we don't download these evil and malicious apps from well known appstores like F-Droid. Thank you Google for parenting me so well and kindly, I would have never known how to stay protected.
