battery life shorter vpn

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battery life shorter vpn

MullVAD Wireguard that I use and ExpressVPN are about the best VPNs. BUT Beginning about Aug. 1 my iPhone 13 Mini battery life has been reduced by perhaps 30%. Now it’s dead by 4 or 5 pm. Always before it would still have some battery the next morning with little or no use during the night. I’ve tried EVERY change suggested to reduce battery drain with zero improvement. I finally ordered the physically smallest backup battery on the market but I hate having to carry something extra- we use the Mini because it is small. My phone reports MullVAD is one of the largest battery users and others on web say the same. I’m looking for an alternative VPN that uses less battery. Someone said we can install Wireguard without MullVAD which reduces battery use.

I’ve looked in vain for comparisons of battery use by MullVAD and ExpressVPN.

Anybody have any suggestions?

iPhone 13 mini

Posted on Sep 3, 2023 5:17 PM

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KiltedTim

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Sep 3, 2023 5:35 PM in response to Packwood

Using a VPN to access the Internet is a waste of time, energy, and electrons. It does absolutely nothing to protect your privacy or secure your data. Quite the opposite in fact.

VPNs are designed to create a secure tunnel to allow access to a private network.

Dump the VPN.

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KiltedTim

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Sep 4, 2023 6:23 AM in response to Packwood

Sorry, but you're not making sense. Yes, your IP address will change. It's dynamic. That's normal.

What, exactly, are you trying to tunnel to?

As I already said, if you're using a VPN to access content on the Internet, you're not accomplishing anything other than to slow things down and willingly give all of your data traffic to a 3rd party that can't be trusted with it.

You're not doing anything to secure your connection or protect your data.

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Packwood Author

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Sep 4, 2023 11:37 AM in response to Packwood

I use Firefox through Spectrum Cable to access the web- I’m not familiar with “using a VPN to access the web.” I have Firefox use MullVAD VPN to tunnel (encrypt) my outgoing web requests to MullVAD’s server so Spectrum or anyone else cannot see my web URLs, and secondarily to cause my web requests to be originated from MullVAD’s server location instead of my location. Spectrum and I believe most ISPs change our web address requests, in particular our DNS requests, to their own DNS servers which send us to web pages for which the ISP receives income, and perhaps for other less-respectable reasons.

I believe my use of the VPN is the primary reason we all use VPNs.

My post is primarily to learn whether anyone has found a way to use VPN on iPhone 13 Mini on iOS 16 without the VPN consuming so much battery that battery life becomes so short that the phone dies by mid-afternoon.

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Packwood Author

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Sep 3, 2023 7:30 PM in response to KiltedTim

Using Firefox browser with MullVAD to tunnel past my ISP USCellular. Without it, USCellular changes my addresses. You say I don’t need it. What do you suggest instead?

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