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                     currently only depends on GSF and can be used without Play services or
                     the Play Store.</p>
 
+                    <p>On 6th and 7th generation Pixels, Google Camera is a privileged app on the
+                    stock Pixel OS and has privileged access to Tensor SoC hardware acceleration
+                    unavailable to regular apps. Since it's a regular sandboxed app on GrapheneOS,
+                    it has to use more software processing. It captures photos just as quickly but
+                    takes longer to process them after capturing. It doesn't lose any features or
+                    any image quality from lack of privileged access. Since several photos can be
+                    queued up for processing, this is only noticeable if you try to quickly take
+                    multiple pictures without a couple seconds for it to process them. One special
+                    case is Portrait mode on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro which requires a lot of
+                    time to process each picture without the privileged hardware acceleration and
+                    is therefore very noticeable because after a few shots, you'll need to wait a
+                    while for the slow software processing. Google has acknowledged this as an
+                    issue and is working on improving it. There have been major improvements in
+                    recent Google Camera releases. We're considering providing a toggle for users
+                    to choose to give privileged access to Google Camera.</p>
+
                     <p>We aim to reduce the benefits of Google Camera compared to GrapheneOS
                     Camera over time, especially on Pixels. Many features of Google Camera will
                     end up being available for GrapheneOS Camera in the next year or so via