Sorry if I’m missing the point here. Ive had an issue where my phone is work provided and they use zscaler which you cannot turn off. This is an issue when I want to use something like, say, ProtonVPN since the other VPN is on. Does Tailscale work the same way? Is there a way to use Tailscale on a device that already has a VPN that you cannot turn off?
Thanks!
Tailscale is also a VPN. So no you won’t be able to use it. I’m sure the flood of comments are coming so I will start. Anything and everything you use that phone for can and will be used against you with HR and IT. Seriously. IT can see everything. If possible use a personal device for personal things.
I want to reiterate and expand on some points here:
Your experience with ProtonVPN will most likely be the same as with Tailscale. If you’re on iOS, this is a limitation with the OS as it only allows one VPN profile to be installed running at a time.
Source: https://tailscale.com/kb/1105/other-vpns
Edited to clarfiy You can only have one profile running at a time.
No, both iOS and Android only allow a single VPN running at a time. If you can’t turn off zscaler you cannot use Tailscale on that device, sorry 
How about not using your phone for personal stuff.
The company can see more than you think. Especially if it’s their hardware.
Just buy a travel router like Beryl AX, install VPN, Tailscale etc. Connect whatever you want to it. The company will not know as you are just connected to a personal router.
When I had a position that required a corporate phone I just forwarded the number to my personal phone (both iPhones). I didn’t want to carry 2 phones and this allowed me to still receive texts and calls. I left the corporate phone plugged in on my office desk so if they tracked it, it was always on campus.
I love how Reddit says everything but what OP ask for lol.
Using your work device for personal activities or your personal device for work activities is a slippery slope. Once you start down that path, you may find months later that it’s hard to disentangle one from the other on your devices, posing too much risk.
The only thing I do when using personal devices to check work-related matters is access Office 365 (Outlook, etc.) through a web browser. I don’t install any work-related apps or accounts on my personal devices.
Really, I shouldn’t even do that (and I may just stop). I can’t stop people from sending me work-related texts (though I wish I could).
The problem is that employees often give in to pressure to be accessible and are generally unwilling to tell their bosses that they are unreachable unless they are issued a work mobile device.
I think for me it would be time to get a personal phone.
The 2 phone setup sucks sometimes but it also allows you to unplug from work by leaving the work phone at home and still getting driving directions.
If your using it for legit reasons and do t care about being snooped on then you could always use a proxy or socks port. There based on browsers setting so you’d be able to set the server side up on your tails scale machine. It’s older school but works a treat if your just after web page content. We use to use it in school when we got locked out of VPN installs.
Don’t use your work phone. They will see Tailscale installed. Sincerely the mobile and desktop admin that sees when people install anything…… I love writing emails to people with Cc their boss saying please stop installing non authorized shit.
Seriously if your worried what work can see on your work phone then get a new job.
why would you even think to use a work phone for personal stuff
People get fired for this all the time and - I’m sorry to be rude - I can’t believe people are actually stupid enough to think they had a single shred of privacy.
stop using work devices as personal devices lmao.
I am super worried about what my work can see, so I agree with you there. However I was planning to use Tailscale for some self hosted services that I wouldn’t care are exposed to the them (like a wiki for stuff I learn, etc). I do have a personal phone and will just use that if what we are saying is not possible. In that case, I have teleport through my Unifi software and can just turn that on. Thanks for your quick response, I thought I was just completely missing some way to do this.
Thanks for this! My company uses BYOD with Intune! Woot!
Thats what I thought - thanks for the quick response.
but how come I have 3 profiles installed?
I kind of closed this thread out of my head, but yeah I mean I understood the privacy point when the FIRST person made it. But 10+ people had to make the same point over and over and over again.
It’s like the TPS report lectures in office space. People are so self important that rather than just upvote the first privacy comment, they can’t wait to hear themselves talk and say the same thing over and over. I would ask the 2nd through 10th person, what did you add that improved over the first comment that could have just been an upvote?
If this is the Tailscale community, I’ll try something else.
Why would he get fired for looking at his own self hosted stuff on his work phone? Completely useless comment added after 5 people have already warned about personal phone use. Why not just thumbs up one of the other similar comments? Lmao