Any active VPN in Owner profile breaks internet in secondary profiles

lorarzi42

I have been having this issue for a few years now and have found no way to truly fix it. Basically, if I have a VPN active in the owner profile, all secondary profiles can no longer access the internet at all unless I go back to the Owner profile and disable the VPN. This happens regardless if I have the 'Block connections without VPN' setting toggled or not for the specific VPN connection I am using in the Owner profile.

Is there any real way to fix this issue? Or is this a permanent Android bug that will not be fixed upstream?

Overlay1404

lorarzi42 Are you sure this is not device limit issue with your VPN provider? For example, when I used to use AirVPN each of my profiles was considered a seperate device and all of a sudden I would not be able to connect to the VPN on a secoundary profile because I would run into device limits.

There are a few ways around this like using the same wireguard config in each profile or turning off "allow running in background" so you don't have multiple profile VPNs on.