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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.

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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 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.

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