A Kill Switch, known as an emergency stop, ensures all your online traffic always travels through a secure and encrypted VPN connection this article explains what is a VPN kill switch and how to activate it.

you can think about what happens if, for some reason, your VPN connection were to get disconnected while you were online.

Kill Switch is a special VPN feature that automatically disconnects your phone from the Internet until the VPN connection is restored. With a kill switch, there’s no possibility that your IP address accidentally gets exposed, or that the security and anonymity of your internet connection would be compromised.

 

So, In essence, it’s a simple security feature that ensures your device’s true IP address is never exposed in the case of a dropped connection with the VPN server. This can be critically important for frequent torrent downloaders and BitTorrent users. If you’re downloading a torrent file, and the VPN disconnects for even a second, your online actions will be spotted by your ISP who can throttle your speed or, even worse, report you for downloading the torrents. The Kill Switch will kill your internet connection so that you won’t be exposed for even a second.

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How to Activate Kill Switch for OpenVPN?

You can use Kill Switch with the OpenVPN app for Android and iOS devices.

Now we want to explain how to activate Kill Switch on OpenVPN, In two ways.

 

First Method:

The first method is through the application, In order to follow these steps:

1-  Open the OpenVPN app and touch the menu icon.

2- Touch the “Settings” button.

3- Select the “Seamless Tunnel” checkbox.

You have now activated the Kill Switch on your Android device.

 

Second Method:

The second method is through Android phone settings. In order to activate it, follow these steps:

1- Connect to an OpenVPN server first.

2- Now go to your Android device setting from this path:

Setting >> Connections >> More connecting Setting >>VPN

3- Find OpenVPN profile and touch setting icon

4- Touch the “Always-on VPN” button to activate it.

5- Touch “Block connections without VPN” and touch “Turn on” then.

Now you can see both “Always-on VPN” and “Block connections without VPN” features are active.

How to Activate Kill Switch for Cisco AnyConnect?

You can activate Kill Switch on Cisco AnyConnect through the phone settings. In order to activate it, follow these steps:

1- Connect to a Cisco AnyConnect server first.

2- Now go to your device setting (Use this path for Android):

Setting >> Connections >> More connecting Setting >>VPN

3- Find AnyConnect profile and touch setting icon.

3- Touch the “Always-on VPN” button.

4- Touch “Block connections without VPN” and touch “Turn on” then.

Now you can see both “Always-on VPN” and “Block connections without VPN” features are active.

Make sure to activate Kill Switch if you are doing a sensitive activity with your VPN connection.

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This article has been updated on February 2022 by SaturnVPN.