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.

I've been asking for this for YEARS. It's the one thing that's stopping me from using ProtonVPN as my provider. It's clearly not difficult to do - Mullvad has an excellent implementation (open source BTW - but lousy for streaming/CAPTCHAs), NordVPN does it also and so do a few other others. Specifically, allowing permanent kill switch (boot time protection) and split tunneling to be active together. Considering how privacy focused Proton is, I'm really surprised they haven't done this yet. Maybe the journalists and others who really need the permanent kill switch don't have bank accounts and ever need to split tunnel :-). But seriously, it's not difficult. Come on guys, let's just pls knock this one off the to-do list

I saw that Proton VPN had a kill switch and split tunneling, both important features to me. But after buying a 2 year subscription now I found out that they are incompatible! Very frustrating. This means a lot of error-prone manual switching for me.

This is a quite important feature for many. Especially if you want to avoid IP leaks when torrenting. I never really understood why this is not a thing in Proton, and I was quite disappointment when I found out.