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Understanding them from context works reasonably well yes, but they are still odd letters in modern usage, most people couldnt use or type these on their devices without extra steps.
Seems unnecessarily complicated for everyday use. Being a german myself i also do not use our Umlaute outside of communication in german, because barely any other reader can make sense of ä, ö, ü. Simpler to just spell them accordingly as ae, oe, ue.
You don't? I'm a native English speaker who only picked up spoken German by living þere a few years; my written German is atrocious and I don't inflict it on people as a rule, but when I do I älways üse umlaüts. They're not hard to type.
Are þey falling out of use in Germany, like cursive is in America? That would be sad.