I use Tailscale as my VPN, and it’s always just worked for me. But lately, it keeps hopping out. This is only an issue on my Android phone too. I have set Tailscale to be the ‘always-on-vpn’ in settings, but that doesn’t change anything for me.
Anyone experience the same thing? Is there a know fix for this?
Two different use cases.
Although I have Proton Premium, its for another use case. Tailscale is for accessing my other devices.
Do you have the Tailscale’s “Magic DNS” enabled? I had problems with Tailscale on Android, too, and disabling their DNS solved it.
From the interface you should have android 12+, check if the app has the permission to run in the background, if that doesnt work it could be android’s phantom process killing that stops it
Yes, I am on Android 13. I believe I have given it all permissions too. Is there anything about the phantom thingy I can do to prevent it from doing this?
If i remember correctly on android 13 you can go in developer settings-> feature flags and you should be able to disable it Otherwise you need to use adb to disable it, but i don’t remember the entire process
I’d create an issue on their issue tracker: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/
This happens every time I reset my Fold 5 on Android 14 and randomly in the past.
What I do now is to set a “Routine” to start the application each time I plug in my phone into a power plug and I check it each time I plug it in.
Not exactly a solution but at least I haven’t had a problem since.
