GrapheneOS: Google Pay (GPay) via Fitbit, second phone or other options?

UK Banks: HSBC, Lloyds, Starling, Monzo, etc.

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Are you asking whether you should use grapheneos, your fitbit or a second phone for banking?
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- For NFC payment
A bank card is far more practical than a second phone. Even if Google Pay did work on GrapheneOS, I would not use it. It looks like a privacy nightmare.
- True, there really is no reason to configure a second phone just to use NFC payments when you can just carry a much smaller card...
- But then I can use it for any broken bank apps too.
  
  Don't need them. Halifax has online banking in a browser. When they merged with Lloyd's, they moved systems so I'm assuming it's the same for Lloyd's.
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If you want a device to do NFC payments you'll need to look somewhere other than GrapheneOS. (Believe me, I've tried everything)

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/475-wallet-google-pay
If you must, the least invasive of the wearables that don't suck is Garmin. Get a Garmin watch that supports it.

Paying with NFC does lower the risk of getting a card cloned. The payment generates a unique code that's worth only what you paid.
Garmin pay, assuming you bank supports it
Use a card. NFC is not a necessity.

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