From PC Mag: Your mobile VPN may be broken on Android, and multiple providers have been waiting on a fix from Google for over half a year.
Proton VPN noted the problems in a post on the social media network X, pointing to its requests to Google to fix the error found with phones and tablets running Android 16. Proton says it first reported the bug in September 2025, but it had already been reported by two other providers a month earlier.
The bug causes VPN services to stop working in the background, and it's believed to be introduced by app updates coming from the Play Store while the VPN is active on a device. The problem isn't impacting all devices, meaning some users won't be affected.
Proton says, “The bug corrupts Android's network stack at the system level after a VPN update, causing users to blame their VPN provider.”
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