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Android 16 has a 7-month-old bug that breaks VPN apps (issuetracker.google.com)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by mudkip to c/android@lemmy.world

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Quote from Proton VPN:

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 Mullvad and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

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

The bug corrupts Android's network stack at the system level after a VPN update, causing users to blame their VPN provider.

Restarting the app doesn't help, with the only fix being a full device reboot or VPN app reinstall, something which most users never figure out.

This affects several VPN providers on Android 16, and only Google has the access to diagnose it properly.

After 7 months of waiting, we're now asking publicly: Google, when are you fixing this?

Issue Tracker Links:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/441315112

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/4474331

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of bank apps actually work fine on Graphene, there's a list of working ones here: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nice, both my bank and Wero are listed. Do you think this can be adapted for postmarket?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's possible that the android app could be run through a compatibility layer such as waydroid, but that would need separate testing to confirm if the app is compatible.

[–] punkibas@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just tested on postmarketOS and both Aegis and my bank app work fine through waydroid. My bank alerts that my phone is somehow modified and that I should be careful.

So I guess they do detect it, but some banks may or may not allow you to use their app in that case. (My app works on graphene too btw)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Woah! Thanks for testing that! :D

Be sure to check out that comment @SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank you two! (pinging @punkibas@lemmy.zip to make sure you'll receive my back-patting)

I bet my bank app won't work, because it and the bank behind it sucks, but I wanted to switch anyways.