All android and iOS apps can see your VPN

Mitsuha: > Every app must access such details by user explicitly giving access to that. Otherwise all malicious apps will become “vpn” and “app store”. > (Brave has it’s vpn inside browser so it’s VPN client from OS perspective) In an ideal world I agree. It should be noted that Android 17 now has an API for selecting app to be excluded from the VPN tunnel, so VPN apps might not need the app list anymore. It depends who implement it. If GOS implements it, they would almost certainly have to allow it by default either for some apps (lot of effort to collect a list of all of those who need it) or some category of apps. If they don’t, it will lead to a lot of breaking. But if Google does it, then yes they can just make it for every app.