I was not aware of this until today. People use work profiles on Android to isolate their more privacy invasive apps. If you want those apps to be tunnelled through a VPN, you would have to install the VPN application you use on your work profile separately and turn it on separately in your work profile.

    • black_mouflon@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I thought you could do that through the setting “Allow client to use VPNs” in Network & internet -> Hotspot and tethering settings

      • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I wasn’t aware that you could do that on regular android. I can’t confirm it because i’m using grapheneos, and I know it doesn’t have that setting.

        • black_mouflon@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It is on my phone on CalyxOS. I’m not sure about other operating systems. It could be that is not.I did’t expect so much difference in functiinality since Calyx is based on AOSP.

            • black_mouflon@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Ok thanks. I’ve been using CalyxOS for a while and l’m not caught up with “regular” Android. But if this features are so usefull why aren’t they merged to the AOSP (Android open source project)

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                The VPN sharing choice is at least logical. You have to make a decision when designing a system how your engineer the network stack. And if you say every profile and every user gets equal access to the network stack. Then you get this result.

                But the feature of sharing VPN access is also useful. So it really just depends on what choice you made earlier. I don’t think this is necessarily evil.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    In stock Android, VPN settings only apply per user per profile. So if you have multiple users running they have different VPN settings.

    Work profiles don’t share VPN

    User accounts don’t share VPN

    Hotspot doesn’t share VPN

    Teathering doesn’t share VPN

  • Lemongrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Yep, seems like it acts like another device. Different user. Would love to know if there is a solution aside from another vpn instance inside the work profile.

    • MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Actually, the intended use of work profile is for… Work. You don’t want the corporate VPN to be The phone-wide VPN - do you?

      The design is logical. Since we are all misusing it, I think it would be useful to be able to toggle a “share VPN” switch.