IF YOU ARE USING A VPN, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS SETTING! Prevent Data Leakage When Internet Outages

Platform: Android / Apple iOS

One of the most important issues when using VPN is VPN connection loss.

When a regular VPN connection is lost, your device can continue its internet connection over the normal network.

Here Kill Switch comes into play.

According to Amnezia's documentation, Kill Switch can be enabled from within the application in Windows, macOS and Linux versions. It tries to prevent traffic from leaving the VPN tunnel by preventing the normal internet connection from being used if the VPN connection is lost. Amnesia Docs

On Android, Amnesia does not have a separate Kill Switch within the application; instead Android's Always-on VPN and Block connections without VPN options are available. On iOS, behavior is also managed by the system. Amnesia Docs

This detail is important.

Because on the internet:

“I use VPN, I'm safe.”

just saying it is not enough.

What the device does when the VPN connection is lost is also important.