It does seem to work reliably. Maybe the client/service could start earlier as some apps try to get network connections very quickly after restart and obviously they're blocked until the VPN connects successfully (assuming the "Advanced" kill switch is in use). But it does what's intended (blocks all connectivity without VPN) and still allows split tunneling once the VPN is up. Glad they finally took care of it

Frustrated as well I love everything about this app but this is a huge issue. Critical

This works now on Windows in 4.37. Took long enough :-) But thanks. Nice job

Unless you enable this feature, when using Killswitch, the only way to access LAN subnets is to disconnect from Proton VPN, which totally goes against the reason why we enable killswitch. Allowing killswitch and Split Tunneling would be the way to go.

I also don't understand how this isn't a thing for ProtonVPN. I swapped from NordVPN because I already use ProtonEmail and ProtonPass, so I thought I may as well have it all in one place. I'm paying a hefty fee compared to NordVPN, but I still have the opportunity to back out and swap to Nord Pass and their VPN again. Make. It. Work.

I was very surprised when I found out this is not a feature. I used to use Tunnelbear and it was available there, I'm very much used to having it. The lack of this feature is essentially preventing me from using the kill switch, or significantly impacting my workflow.

Need this for Mac OS X and iOS. Need to be able to enable kill switch and access local services.

I see this post is from 2023, and it still hasn't been implemented? I just bought Proton VPN after coming from Mullvad, and i'm severely disappointed it doesn't have this same feature. It's quite important to me. I don't want to pay for two vpn's after all.

How is this not a thing yet?! Mullvad has this.

Need this for Android. Critical.

How is this not on the roadmap?

I, too, "would be okay with the VPN app completely killing my bypassed connections as well, it wouldn't even have to be gracefully respecting those" as suggested by Jan.

And actually, shutting down *all* connections (including bypassed connections) would be a good way to alert a user regarding issues with tunneled connections.

This one is critical for me. Coming from a previous VPN which has a kill switch with split tunneling, it seems so standard - such a significant reduction in capability for me. It’s really the only gripe I have, the product is otherwise solid!

A way to enable kill switch while split tunneling is active. I've had Mullvad for a year or two and its a feature they had, it was really nice to have as back up and I really like that feature. Just signed up for Proton and I'm liking it so far, but I wish it had that capability.

Upvoted and marked as critical to me.

Would really love to see this feature added, other VPNs manage to do so just fine and it seems like this was acknowledged a few years back as something to implement. didn't realize this wasn't a feature until I had to split tunnel a game or two, kind of disappointing tbh.

You must do this ASAP, I am thinking of changing vpn because of this!!!

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN PROTON VPN THAT IS MISSING ,IS USING KILLSWITCH TOGETHER WITH SPLIT TUNNELING! MAKE THIS WORK AND YOU WILL BE THE BEST VPN IN THE GALAXY! (I NEED IT FOR WINDOWS PC)

This is needed, its on all big VPN providers

Express VPN has this also, bit of a deal breaker really.

Please, please implement this. If Mullvad (and NordVPN!) can do it, surely, Proton can.