A few seconds, many requests
Think of what runs while you are not looking: a chat app keeping its line open, a photo library syncing, a mail client checking for new messages. In a three-second gap, several of them reach a server.
Without the kill switch, each of those servers sees your home or mobile IP. With it, the requests stall and go out again later, once VPNPass is back.
Moments that set it off
Walking in the front door, when the phone leaves 5G for your own Wi-Fi. Opening a laptop that slept overnight. An elevator ride with one bar of signal. Jumping to another city in the server list.
Some networks add their own breaks. Certain hotel and university networks cut long encrypted sessions on a timer.
Switching it on
You get it on Basic, Plus and Pro without an add-on fee. Our apps are still in preparation, and the toggle will sit in their connection settings.
Android phones have a second safeguard of their own. Mark VPNPass as always-on in system settings and block connections that skip the VPN. With a router running a WireGuard profile, look at the firmware, because it controls what happens on a drop.
- Computers, iPhone and iPad: Settings > Connection > Kill switch
- Android: that toggle, then Always-on VPN and Block connections without VPN in system settings
- Router: the WireGuard page of the firmware
Getting back online
While the block is active, pages hang and the app will say it is reconnecting. Give it a moment, or tap another server.
Tapping Disconnect on purpose ends the block at once. Traffic is held only after drops you did not choose.