Disable VPN when on trusted Wifi Connections
I love ProtonVPN. I use it on my Android phone, and have it installed on my home router to protect all my devices on my home network. When I connect my Android phone to my home wifi network, I would love for my ProtonVPN app to sense the new connection and disconnect it on my phone--so that I only use the mobile app when I'm out in the world on 4G/5G and public wifi connections.
Jesse M
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Seth
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It would be exceedingly useful for me to have this feature. Being able to whitelist networks to disable the VPN on, whilst having any that I do not explicitly trust run with the VPN automatically would be a huge boost to privacy, battery and usability of pVPN.
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Travis Hindley commented
The ability to have always-on VPN is great, however, there are times when this is might not be wanted. For example, on a home network, or when connected to a personal cellular hotspot, it might not be necessary to have the VPN active.
The feature I would like to see in Proton VPN is the ability to add Wi-Fi Networks to an exclusion list for the Always On VPN. Most basic scenario is "Proton VPN enabled on all networks except my home, personal network".
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Epm30
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This would be tremendously useful since I use an internal DNS server on my home network.
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Pratik
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I am a proton user since last 18 months. I am eagerly waiting for this feature so that, I dont have to enable the vpn when I leave my home(where I have installed proton vpn on my router).
Is there any workaround till this feature is implemented by proton team?
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Nic Heath
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Proton VPN really needs this feature.
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Burrata commented
Hi Proton team. This is a highly important feature for conserving battery.
Why are you not adding features like this?
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This would be excellent
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JPL
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This is a really important feature. I currently have NordVPN where the VPN connection is permanently active on my wi-fi (LAN) because it's running on the router. The NordVPN iOS app allows you to whitelist specific wi-fi connections that disable VPN, so I have my home wi-fi on the whitelist. That way NordVPN *automatically* connects to the VPN on my iPhone every time I leave my house, and then *automatically* disconnects on my iPhone every time I re-connect to my home wi-fi.
Would love to see ProtonVPN implement this feature as well. For me it's the one key feature I need before I switch over from NordVPN.
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Jim Mitchell
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I went back to NordVPN temporarily until this is implemented. Still have ProtonMail and didn't want to leave ProtonVPN, but it's just a pain to have to do it manually AND make sure you have everything re-enabled when you leave your trusted WiFi. I would leave it running all the time, including when I'm at home, but I cannot connect to my HomeKit cameras with the VPN running.