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Support for a Single VPN Instance Shared Across All Users on a Corporate-Owned Device
You quite openly included OEM scope in your original request:
Is there any existing mechanism (documented or OEM-specific) that allows a VPN to operate at the device scope rather than user scope?
There's no native option today, this would be a feature request.
Thanks, but solutions limited to a specific OEM (like Samsung Knox APIs) are clearly not what I'm looking for. The request here is for native Android support, available across all devices, not tied to one vendor.
You quite openly included OEM scope in your original request:
Is there any existing mechanism (documented or OEM-specific) that allows a VPN to operate at the device scope rather than user scope?
There's no native option today, this would be a feature request.
That doesn't really conflict with my intent. The fact that certain OEMs have implemented device-level VPN only proves that Android itself does not provide such an option today, so I didn't miss or misread anything in the Android documentation. Listing OEM implementations is useful both as reference material for Android developers and as evidence that there is broader demand for this feature.
If Google ultimately refuses to implement it natively, OEM solutions might remain a fallback. But what I most hope to see is Android itself supporting device-level VPN.
And apologies for the misunderstanding — I've been using AI to help with translation and refinement, which may not always capture my meaning precisely.
Here is your answer then: Google have not implemented this natively today, and they have also not refused or agreed to implement this functionality. Fallback for your needs are what OEMs have done.
