A few months ago, Google rolled out a great perk to Google One subscribers on the cloud service’s most expensive tier. For $9.99 a month, you get 2TB of storage and free access to Google’s own virtual private network.
VPNs hide your IP address as well as your web traffic. Google’s VPN encrypts all online activity, regardless of what app you’re using to go online. But if the VPN disconnects or you forget to enable it, that protection goes away. Google is looking to prevent that with the help of a simple fix. The Google One VPN might automatically cut off your internet access as soon as the VPN disconnects.
The Google One 1.92 update is available via the Play Store, but the block internet option isn’t enabled. It’s unclear when Google will roll out the feature to the public Google One release or if it’ll graduate from beta. 9to5Google points out that Android already features options including Always-on-VPN and Block connections without VPN, but they can’t be enabled when the VPN is set up via an app. And Google’s VPN is configured via the Google One app.
Google One isn’t available on iPhone, but Google offers certain iOS users a way to access its VPN service. They have to switch carriers to Google Fi, which comes with a built-in VPN service.
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