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Use cases and walkthroughs for reaching your own machines from an Android phone: a home lab, a cloud VM, a NAS behind a router.

• Your VPN stays on: photos to your NAS and Jellyfin in your pocket 14 October 2026 — Two jobs a phone cannot do over Tailscale without giving up its VPN: photos to a NAS and Jellyfin, through an in-app node and a port forward.
• Reach your tailnet from Android, no second VPN app 13 October 2026 — Android phones get one VPN slot, and mine is spoken for. How I reach my server, NAS and Raspberry Pi by name with a Tailscale node inside the SSH app.