Comment by girvo
13 hours ago
I love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now
13 hours ago
I love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now
I have the same experience and I once found a GitHub issue about it. I don’t think it sounded like they planned to fix it anytime soon. I just added the Tailscale toggle button to my phone’s quick control panel and turn it on whenever I want to check all my syncthing nodes or something. I keep meaning to see if I can script up something with Shortcuts to make it turn back off automatically.
Were you using an exit node? Because that really does hammer the battery, but vanilla TS without a bunch of traffic doesn't seem to do much to mine.
The only always-on TS service on my phone is Immich for photo backup, and I don't take enough photos for that to matter much.
I wasn't, no. I'm not the only one whos hit it either, not sure what the cause is :(
You should compare battery consumption of TS exit node with something like WG app which low
WG gonna punch through NAT for me?
My endpoint is a pretty stable (though technically dynamic) IPv4 on one end, but the other might be a cell phone with CGNAT, some random WiFi, blah blah etc. TS does that. If you don't want to use it, cool. Don't. I'm willing to make the tradeoffs to use TS for now. That could change in the future.
Strange, battery use is negligible on Android, particularly when the tunnel is not in active use.