The Impact of Cryptography on Mobile Processors
Every sent and received data packet goes through end-to-end encoding and integrity checks. If the protocol isn't optimized for mobile chips, or if the connection is unstable and constantly reconnects, the power consumption of the radio module and CPU increases dramatically, causing physical heating of the device chassis.
How to Reduce Battery Drain
- Switch your VPN protocol from OpenVPN to lightweight WireGuard or VLESS
- Use Split Tunneling to enable the VPN selectively only for apps that need it
- Disable constant background server pinging and location searching in your app settings