Active Apps / Lock screen

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I noticed that when the phone is locked and I open the "active apps" section from the pulldown menu, I'm able to stop apps without unlocking the phone. This normally wouldn't be an issue but as an example you can stop a vpn app without unlocking the phone potentially fully disabling network connectivity. Is this intended / desirable behavior?

matchboxbananasynergy

It is intended, in the sense that this is how upstream AOSP has designed this change with Android 13.

GrapheneOS might want to change this in the future, but it's not a top priority. In the case where someone shuts off the VPN app, the block connections without VPN and always-on VPN settings (enabled by default in GrapheneOS - not the case in AOSP) will not result in leaks but loss of connectivity.

There is this open issue about it: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1423