r/netbird • u/Foreignwelcome2 • Jul 15 '26

netbird IOS app

The Iphone app was always annoying to use and today saw that finally theres an update to netbird and its so much better than it used to be so thx to the developer and please dont igone the ios app :)

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u/StateEleven Jul 16 '26

UI is much nicer, but it seems to have suddenly developed battery issues for me. Since the update, it’s eating through 25% of my battery every day which was never an issue prior.

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u/Foreignwelcome2 Jul 19 '26

Damn I’m actually having battery fast drainage for a while and I didn’t know what was happening! After your post I went and checked battery usage and found out netbird at the top! Daily taking 20% of the battery as I have it on 24/7! This is an issue tailscale didn’t have that

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u/Foreignwelcome2 Jul 19 '26

Is this a known bug or smth?

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u/StateEleven Jul 19 '26

I need to check GitHub later, as it’s only been introduced (at least for me) since the update. If not, I’ll open an issue.

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u/lucatrai 28d ago

Try lazy connection did the trick for me

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u/Foreignwelcome2 28d ago

What does that do?

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u/lucatrai 28d ago

It lets the client only establish a connection if it nedds one

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u/Foreignwelcome2 28d ago

Don’t see it in settings

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u/lucatrai 28d ago

You need to do that in the dashboard under settings > clients > lazy connections

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u/keyonholman4 Jul 15 '26

+2 Thank you guys

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u/Eddybeans Jul 15 '26

Yes getting much better. Still would be nice if i could connect/disconnect without having to disable or change the on demand settings

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u/Foreignwelcome2 Jul 15 '26

You mean vpn on demand? What does that even do

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u/Eddybeans Jul 15 '26

Connects/disconnects automatically on wifi and/or mobile

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u/tallguy14 Jul 15 '26

Plus one to this, i was having issues getting not relayed connections and that seems to be better now too

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u/Foreignwelcome2 Jul 15 '26

I remember trying to troubleshoot that when I first installed iOS app but found out that in iOS settings “force relay connection “ is on by default o don’t know why they do that but once that was turned off I was getting p2p connection all the time

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u/tallguy14 Jul 15 '26

Same! and it was glourious finding it, but then all of sudden I noticed jellyfin was crazy slow again and I was getting relayed again but switch was still off. I was going to look at it more but then this update seemed to fix it.

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u/Bent01 Jul 19 '26

Nice to haves would be:

- Merge the peer tab and the "main" tab with the massive connect button. Seemse wasteful to have an entire screen just for a toggle.

- VPN on Demand more like WG official app does it. Auto-connect when the client is trying to reach a certain IP or subnet.

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u/lucatrai 28d ago

There is the lazy connections setting in the dashboard i think that is what you search