Google has known about a bug that breaks VPN apps for 7 months, leaving users exposed with no warning or error, just a VPN app that stopped working in the background.

If you're using ANY VPN on Android, you can help us by getting Google's attention to fix it.

We first reported this bug to Google in September 2025.

Others like @mullvadnet and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

Google's response? "I don't see anything unusual."

Here's what's actually happening ⤵️

@protonprivacy @mullvadnet is this an issue in @GrapheneOS too or was it fixed there?

@ojocle_olonam @protonprivacy @mullvadnet @GrapheneOS Strange. Yours is the third time this question was asked about GrapheneOS and the GOOG VPN bug, but nobody answers.

Consider this the fourth request for an answer!

@quixote @ojocle_olonam @protonprivacy @mullvadnet We've already posted multiple responses to this being asked across platforms. It won't cause a leak on GrapheneOS unless you explicitly disabled leak protection which is enabled by default. GrapheneOS has leak protection enabled by default and closes numerous standard Android VPN leak bugs.
@GrapheneOS @ojocle_olonam @protonprivacy @mullvadnet Thanks! I hadn't seen it before because I'm a hermit and this is the only platform I'm on 😆 .