I have the surf shark vpn app and this vpn quick toggle doesnt really toggle it on or off. Am I in the minority? Or am I using my vpn wrong? šŸ¤Ŗ

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I have the surf shark vpn app and this vpn quick toggle doesnt really toggle it on or off. Am I in the minority? Or am I using my vpn wrong? :zany_face:

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some VPNā€™s canā€™t be enabled like this. my self-hosted VPN can, but some other services canā€™t

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Settings > General > VPN & Device Management > VPN > (tap on the information button of the selected VPN) > (if turned on, turn ā€œConnect On Demandā€ off)

PS:
This setting was turned on by default on my iPhone for some reason. I had to manually turn it off.
(Note that there may be circumstances that result the setting turning on by itself. It had happened me once but never again. Donā€™t have more information on this.)

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I use proton vpn and for me it can turn it on but not off

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I donā€™t know about Surfshark, but other VPNs sometimes have a problem with toggling for any given session if you try to enable them with the app toggle but disable with the system toggle or vice versa.

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I have surfshark and I am able to toggle it from there. There must be a setting that controls it but Iā€™m unsure but it can work as a toggle for SurfShark specifically

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The same button is in the bottom right corner of the top left box, not sure if the inability to toggle the VPN might be a bug that occurs with two occurrences of the same button in Control Center?

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Yup, it seems like manual l2tp and 3rd party apps like wire guard work fine with it its just the cloud providers that have issues

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Go into your settings and then select VPN. Next to Proton VPN click the blue i in the circle, and ensure Connect On Demand is turned off. This fixed the issue for me

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Same for me for Nord