Comment by dcow

Comment by dcow a day ago

On the battery topic I’m curious if you have anything more than anecdotal evidence. A basic full tunnel wg network extension doesn’t affect battery in a noticeable or unacceptable way, in my experience. Is tailscale’s implementation doing more in a way you can isolate and attribute to poor battery?

pilif 16 hours ago

Tailscale on my iPhone is unusable while connected in the background. The battery consumption reporting diagram is all 100% filled light blue bars, all attributed to Tailscale.

I’m using their MagicDNS feature with three domains and I think that’s the reason

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pilif 12 hours ago

here's the GitHub issue tracking the problem:
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/3363

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sixothree a day ago

I can see it (tailscale) in my battery usage on multiple devices. 20 hours of background usage per day is a bit much if you ask me.

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CharlesW a day ago

FWIW: On iOS 18.4 my Battery report for the last 10 days is ~128h of background activity, using ~2% of my battery life.

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