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Do you notice a battery drain with the VPN always on? I used to use tailscale for this and there was a nontrivial battery penalty

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I've never specifically noticed WireGuard anywhere in the top battery consumers on either Android or iOS. Friday I was out of the house all day, and Wireguard running on cellular all day used 1% of my iPhone battery.

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