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I recently set up Tailscale, but unfortunately the phone app leaves a lot to be desired battery-wise (it takes up 30% of my total battery usage) so I think I'll be looking elsewhere.

Initially, I had tried setting up Nebula, but I am unable to get a static IP address for the beacon (a requirement for any of these mesh VPNs), hence why I went with Tailscale which acts as a beacon for you. I think I'll try ZeroTier next.

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30% seems way _way_ higher than I would expect.

I've been running Tailscale on all my devices for a couple months now, and I haven't noticed any impact on battery life. I just checked my phone (Android) and it's reporting 1% usage.

I would report an issue if you're seeing numbers that high.

I only activate it when I actually need to use it. I don't like running any phone apps in the background, they always suck juice.

I use an iPhone. If you google it, you will notice that lots of people have this issue and have had for a long time.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/pm49t9/tailscale...

- https://forum.tailscale.com/t/high-battery-usage-in-ios/1152

- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363

Weird, 4% on my iPhone. It's always on, though I don't make a lot of connections through it

You need to look at system usage because it’s the tunneling that’s draining the battery, afaict

I had this issue as well, it turned out that something was multicasting frequently, which gets turned into a broadcast because of wireguard's nature. I just switched to plain wireguard with a VPS and my issues magically disappeared.

You can use netmaker and the native wireguard app

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