There used to be like no connection “Connecting” time, but now on iOS 14 I’m lucky to connect to default Quick Connect in under a minute of waiting.
Not that big of a deal, but very annoying.
I have been having this issue as well. Was working perfectly fine until a few days ago. It can take up to a minute or so to connect sometimes. Not the end of the world but an inconvenience, nonetheless.
I don’t have that issue. I connect in less than a second generally. It will depend on what protocol you use and how you are connected.
Also, as iOS is the new Windows, try closing all apps and rebooting your phone.
I’ve noticed this in the past few weeks. Used to be almost instant but now it takes several seconds to find a server. I’m a free tier user so not in a position to complain.
Might be coincidental with the recent addition of more free servers.
There’s like a dozen bad a VPN servers unless you use a secure core from Proton. I use it. I have the mail accounts too. But it sucks for Tor servers they offer.
Try a few other options for your circuit. Also, I had an issue and reinstalling it fixed it well.
iOS 14 added privacy features to hide your real MAC address. Well, VPNs don’t understand that your phone is your phone when you use that on your home network. The also took away the ability to see Mac addresses on your server. It’s creating “messy” handshakes. And the result is hard to connect to network.
The “Find My Network” feature that no one knows was automatically added to the iPhone in iOS 14 is switched on by default. Oh, yeah, now iPhones can find other iPhones (even if they are powered off). That was always possible.
But why didn’t they do it before? It explains the manifestation for the MAC address privacy issues… so the new iOS is less secure while also completely insecure. Enjoy.
Can you contact support about this? They can help you investigate further.
Could you please contact our support team with relevant details (i.e. which servers you tried connecting to, ProtonVPN app version, etc.), so they can investigate this further and help you troubleshoot? You can use the Report Bug feature (and be sure to include your connection logs).
I was worried it was only me. Hopefully this gets fixed.
Thing is, it used to connect quickly like you say, but only recently when I updated phone did it start getting slow.
And I’m on the Plus plan and use TCP exclusively. Never had the problem before. Very strange
I think you have that wrong.
Mac adresses are used only on the local level, VPNs such as proton don’t need access and shouldn’t want access to your MAC.
The offline find my feature works when the device is offline but not powered off. Presumably it works via wifi and/or Bluetooth which would need to remain enabled, if unconnected.
Only ISPs, governments and state level actors should be able to track your phone while it is turned off.
I usually use IKEv2/IPSec
You shouldn’t need to install anything
Well, your comment is made with good intentions, but it’s wrong.
When you try to connect the ProtonVPN from your phone, and the MAC address is different, then the connection issues get messy. Handshakes don’t happen perfectly. The network you’re on needs to be connected via WiFi… the network doesn’t get it when it’s coupled with a VPN too. That’s the delay.
The Find My Network feature allows you to locate a device that’s powered off. Check the setting on your iPhone. It’s hard to find, but you’ll see it. And it says, even if the phone is powered off.
This is BLE. It was always possible. The hardware didn’t change. So what did change?
Devices that have a Bluetooth in them, even if powered off, can be found by a powered device, like a phone. Think of the chip on your CC. There’s no battery. But the scanner powers it.
Now, everyone is walking around with BLE listening for other devices. You can’t see it under Bluetooth, but an app like this will show you. “Tiles” that are dead… not anymore. If you have Alexa devices, they’re looking for the BLE too. That’s why they can offer to help “track” your stuff now.
The last thing you said was right. It shouldn’t be this way. And it wasn’t. For a long tome, but it could have always been done. It’s a big deal. I can walk down the street and see nest cams that I can connect to, other peoples tiles, their cars… it’s the dumbest thing they ever did. Because BLE is findable on low RF and Wifi6 can see it, which means GPS can find anyone anywhere now. BLE. Look it up. BLESa is what you should google.
When you try to connect the ProtonVPN from your phone, and the MAC address is different, then the connection issues get messy. Handshakes don’t happen perfectly. The network you’re on needs to be connected via WiFi… the network doesn’t get it when it’s coupled with a VPN too. That’s the delay.
sorry to continue to disagree but the ‘find my’ network switch states:
“Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even if it’s offline”
It says nothing about working when powered off. Which would be quite a feat to add retroactively to older iphone models.
As far as proton VPN. It is possible that their app is doing something unique with regard to IP/MAC addresses but normally there should be no influence or interaction with a VPN - they are on different layers… Did you test the behaviour by toggling the mac address randomisation function for your wifi?
What is a phone that’s “offline”? Not an ipad… they didn’t announce this, and it’s suggesting it’s reciprocal or that you have a choice to opt in or out. Yes, if the phone is off it can be found. It was always possible. What changed is that people like yourself rather be right than accurate. The sure thing effect is blissful ignorance of the fact we are all Ble’sad right now. If people knew about BLEsa, they would have spoken out against it. Are you sure you’re in the right arena?
This is a forum for Proton. Not cybersecurity. I do cybersecurity work, and that’s why i know about the BLE and the iPhone and all the things i said. It’s certainly was not quite a feet for them to make this new “feature”. Nor Alexa, which can also find your phone powered off.
Since we last had the pleasure, they patched it. It was announced. It was exactly what I said.
If have all the answers, then you can’t learn. I have spent too many hours on BLE research and how it works now and the billions of devices that are effected. But, you don’t take my word for it.
so here’s an article that you can argue with the writer:
Good for you mate… but have you ever tried sniffing bluetooth when it’s filly disabled/turned off (and not disconnected from control centre)?
crickets
the only way to track a phone that is powered off and that hasn’t been tampered with is via the baseband processor.
Your whole condescending tangent on BLE has nothing to do with what you were intially talking about.
Offline = not connected to the internet. You can have bluetooth and wifi both enabled (yet unconnected) and still remain offline. When the phone is powered off, then bluetooth and wifi are disabled.
crickets? people sleep. we don’t all have time to troll.
Yes, I’ve tested it. I made it a point to test it. You use wireshark a lot to monitor your traffic, right? You know exactly how that works, right? You know how the internet works? How this message gets to you, step by step, bit for bit… the whole thing? What’s a SYN? ACK? 4 way handshake? The headers? All the protocols. You have a lot to learn, but you won’t, because you think know better. I would just research it myself and then discuss it. I like to learn. You have nothing to teach me except more patience with the ignorant.
Go learn the advanced search operators and try google. i’m not your teacher, mate. You don’t know the advanced search operators or even what i’m talking about. Google it. allintext: @reddit fuckthisatfuckyou+right or wrong -n30
Next time, try it yourself and then tell me I’m wrong. Don’t ask me to validate myself when you have no idea how BLE tech works. You likely never even heard of it until i said so, yet you challenge me and with nothing to back it. I posted an article, yes? Did you it in full? If you had, you real question would be how to protect yourself from it… 
For the sake of others that read this:
Old “Tiles” can be found that have no batteries/dead batteries now.
BLE devices advertise on or off, they don’t need power. The chip on your CC, does it need power? No.
And a phone that’s “not connected”, “offline”, or “powered off” makes no difference. Find my iPhone always used BLE and “Tile” too, they took it too far. You have to “participate” in “Find My Network” to benefit from it, as they stare. You’ll find that’s not the case. A good way to see this in a different way, is going to location settings, and check system settings, and disable everything. It’ll still work. Wifi calling still works. The compass still works. They say “It may not work”. Lol. Trusting big tech companies isn’t smart. They don’t want you to have privacy, it’s not helping them advertise to you.
How can my phone find “Tiles” using a BLE app that are dead or don’t belong to me?
How can my Alexa devices find them too?
I took the batteries out. Still can find them… the hardware didn’t change.
Every bluetooth device has BLE, bluetooth low emission. Apple itself has a program for Developers that allows me to create BLE tags and things that use BLE and the phone can read them silently, without a battery, and it works well.
the “person” fuckthisatfuckyou, your handle name says a lot about you.
Please, stop trying to be “right” and try to be “accurate” instead. You think i’m being condescending now, but I do social engineering, and you haven’t seen anything like that from me.
Facts are facts. Your whining doesn’t change the facts.
You need to be “right” and you need instant gratification. That’s a a lot of biases i can manipulate easily. If you want to test that, respond.
Otherwise, go search and learn or kick rocks.
Either way, you’ll still be the same person… needs to be right, not accurate, but won’t take the time to learn.
You proved over and over debating someone that knows more without even trying to learn the truth for yourself. I even gave you an article. It says billions of devices are effected. There’s another 100+ articles you probably can’t find because you don’t know to use google like a professional.
If you ask me to prove it, again, I’m going to prove it in a way you won’t forget or bother me about anymore. Yes, even in Australia they have GPS. LoRa’s magic wan, some SDR, and wifi, BLE is everywhere. I can ask any phone that was near your phone in the last 30 days. How long does that take for me to do? That’s scary. That bothers me. I know it can be done, i’ve don’t it.
For someone like yourself, just download this app and tell me what pops up. Powered on devices only? This is from the app store, not a jailbreak. And android phones are even worse.
(crickets) no. you’re probably asleep. its about 12:30am in Sydney. I’min the states. You couldn’t factor that together but I could, mate.
i don’t talk about things as facts unless i personally checked. you’re relying on the “sure thing effect” and “confirmation bias”. what’s that? here… it explains exactly what’s happening right now. i don’t need confirmation, you keep asking for it. and cherry pick info just to appear “right”. that’s sad. fix it.
The strange—but fascinating—thing about the confirmation bias is that it seems to run rampant when information is more available to people. That might seem counterintuitive on the surface. After all, more information should lead to better, truer beliefs, right?
Well, no. The existence of the confirmation bias actually predicts the opposite: more information creates more opportunities to cherrypick the “facts” we use to support our beliefs. So, exposure to more information actually polarizes beliefs.
and just for fun, i’m posting another comment…
You’re right about everything. i know nothing. everything i said was just to look cool and i don’t really care about helping others get educated on things. my motive is obvious… i don’t offer details, sources, or new information. i’m simply pulling everything from the arse and vocalizing it. You clearly know soooo much more about stuff, i wouldn’t dare question you anymore. thank goodness for you mate. if it wasn’t for you, i wouldn’t have enjoyed writing this last post. respond all you want… i won’t reply. anyone reading the thread can google it and see what’s up with me and what’s up with you.
i’m not your mate. i’m not your teacher. it’s not my job to help you. you could googled all the things i said, but you just argued me on it based off nothing but what you think you knew. that’s sad. and i have no words for you because they don’t matter. you don’t need to be spoon fed this information unless you can’t self teach. i only self teach. you keep arguing with me and asking me to prove more. if i’m so wrong, why keep asking me? that’s the whole thing. the motive. your motive is about being right and not about being accurate. the fool or the fools that argues with a fool? i’m getting off here. you can “right” now without interruption of facts. enjoy
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing the connection. The server has to spend resources waiting for half-opened connections, which can consume enough resources to make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.The packet that the attacker sends is the SYN packet, a part of TCP’s three-way handshake used to establish a connection.
More details here: SYN flood - Wikipedia
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Really hope this was useful and relevant 
If I don’t get this right, don’t get mad at me, I’m still learning!
For someone like yourself
You have a lot to learn, but you won’t, because you think know better
Your whining doesn’t change the facts
You’re right about everything. i know nothing.
Please, stop trying to be “right” and try to be “accurate” instead. You think i’m being condescending now, but I do social engineering, and you haven’t seen anything like that from me.
How about, you try to stop being so obnoxiously presumptuous?
I’m not whining, I really don’t think that I know better - if anything I’m only challenging information that just seemed incorrect… but in no terms whatsoever have you comeclose to an accurate reading there. Is this a false flag troll… did the social engineering start already? 
I mean, I wouldn’t be talking about this with you if I hadn’t at least a minimum of understanding and experience with this tech. What would be the point?
I have sniffed BLE before and was not able to pick up my iphone whilst bluetooth was disabled, let alone with the phone off, or even a dead tile device I had lurking around either for that matter.
I was not aware that BLE could work completely unpowered however but I can’t find the specs right now to support or contradict this as I’m working.
I’m surprised that a tile would work without a battery mainly since that does not correlate with my experience.
I know that the ‘find my’ feature is relatively new though so I was genuinely interested to see where this might go and if things had really changed that much since I last checked.
Unfortunately you are being such an insufferable prick, it’s probably best to just leave you to your ranting. I hope that you at least stand by your promise and spare me from any further response.
And you seem to have completely forgotten your original MAC-related confusion, committing entirely to your tangent.
Just maybe, try not to be such a tosser next time?