Smart Connect
Choose Optimal and tap Connect. Smart Connect does the rest: it starts with the protocol most likely to work on your network right now and, if that one fails, moves to the next one by itself, in seconds. You don’t need to know which protocol to use.
In the app, Optimal “Picks the best protocol for your network automatically.”
Smart Connect starts with the protocol that is working best for people on the same kind of network as you: the same country and the same internet provider.
If a protocol can’t connect within a few seconds, the app tries the next one. If none of them can connect, you get a clear message instead of a spinning wheel.
With Optimal, Smart Connect starts with WireGuard on most networks. The app describes WireGuard as “Fastest. Best for everyday use where VPNs aren’t blocked.” If WireGuard can’t get through, it moves on to the next protocol. Only when the quicker ones fail does it use slower, disguised routes that make your connection look like ordinary web browsing.
In countries known to block VPNs, Smart Connect can start with the disguised routes instead.
Networks change. When a network starts blocking one protocol, the app sees that connections there are failing and moves people on that network to the next protocol that works. You don’t have to wait for an app update or change a setting. The order adjusts by itself, from anonymous totals of which protocols connect and which don’t.
Your home Wi-Fi and your mobile data can behave very differently. The app remembers which protocol worked on each network and starts with it next time, so you connect faster on the networks you use every day. This memory stays on your device and is never sent to us.
If you choose WireGuard, OpenVPN UDP, OpenVPN TCP or AmneziaWG yourself, the app uses that protocol only, just as before, and sends no connection reports. Smart Connect works when you choose Optimal or Stealth.
Smart ConnectPicks the best protocol for your network automatically.
WireGuarduses that protocol onlysends no connection reports
OpenVPN UDPuses that protocol onlysends no connection reports
OpenVPN TCPuses that protocol onlysends no connection reports
AmneziaWGuses that protocol onlysends no connection reports
| Optimal (Smart Connect) | A protocol you pick | |
|---|---|---|
| Which protocol | The one most likely to work on your network now | Always the same one |
| If it can’t connect | Moves to the next one by itself | Stays on that protocol; you change it yourself |
| When a network starts blocking it | Adapts by itself | You change it yourself |
| Remembers your networks | Yes | Not needed |
| Anonymous connection reports | Yes, hourly totals only | None |
Smart Connect learns from connection results, never from what you do online. To learn which protocols work where, the app sends one short anonymous report after each connection attempt in Optimal or Stealth: which protocol and server location it tried, whether it connected, and how long it took.
We follow a no-logs policy, and Smart Connect doesn’t change that. It’s described in our Privacy Policy under “Connection quality data”. Read the Privacy Policy
Smart Connect is in every CopVPN app with protocols: Android, Android TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Linux.
The browser extension uses a single protocol, Secure Proxy, so it doesn’t need Smart Connect.
When you choose Optimal or Stealth, Smart Connect picks the protocol most likely to work on your network. If that one fails, it moves to the next one by itself.
Choose Optimal and let Smart Connect decide. Pick a protocol yourself only if you have a reason to.
Yes. Pick WireGuard, OpenVPN UDP, OpenVPN TCP or AmneziaWG yourself and the app uses only that one.
No. It counts which protocols connect on each network and uses the ones that work most often. No AI is involved.
No. Choose Optimal or Stealth in any CopVPN app with protocols and Smart Connect runs. Every app also connects to the free locations without a plan.
Moving to the next protocol takes a moment, just like changing servers. For the strongest protection, turn on Always-on VPN with “Block connections without VPN” (Android) or the kill switch.
Only anonymous hourly totals of which protocols connect, per country and internet provider. Your browsing is never involved, and we never store your email, account, device ID or IP address. See “Your no-logs promise stays intact” above.
No VPN can promise that. Smart Connect tries every protocol your app supports, one after another, and tells you clearly if none of them can connect.
Some Wi-Fi networks block VPN traffic. Try another server, or choose Optimal and Smart Connect switches to a protocol that works on that network by itself.
These networks often block VPNs on purpose. When the fast protocols are blocked, Smart Connect moves to disguised routes that look like ordinary web browsing. Follow your school’s or employer’s rules.
Often the network is weak or changing. If the connection drops, the app reconnects automatically, and Smart Connect picks a protocol that works on that network and remembers it for next time.
Choose Optimal, tap Connect, and let Smart Connect find the way.
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