I have the same experience and I once found a GitHub issue about it. I don’t think it sounded like they planned to fix it anytime soon. I just added the Tailscale toggle button to my phone’s quick control panel and turn it on whenever I want to check all my syncthing nodes or something. I keep meaning to see if I can script up something with Shortcuts to make it turn back off automatically.
replyWere you using an exit node? Because that really does hammer the battery, but vanilla TS without a bunch of traffic doesn't seem to do much to mine.
replyThe only always-on TS service on my phone is Immich for photo backup, and I don't take enough photos for that to matter much.
You should compare battery consumption of TS exit node with something like WG app which low
replyWG gonna punch through NAT for me?
replyMy endpoint is a pretty stable (though technically dynamic) IPv4 on one end, but the other might be a cell phone with CGNAT, some random WiFi, blah blah etc. TS does that. If you don't want to use it, cool. Don't. I'm willing to make the tradeoffs to use TS for now. That could change in the future.
Strange, battery use is negligible on Android, particularly when the tunnel is not in active use.
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