Automatically select nearest city

[Anvil5465]

I have checked if others have suggested this already

• I have checked this issue tracker to see if others have reported similar issues.

Feature description

As an alternative to #1925 that wouldn't require pinging servers, it would be nice if Mullvad used your real IP to automatically select the city that is closest to your IP physically. This is likely to provide good performance and low latency.

Alternative solutions

I have been manually switching my VPN location to a nearby server when traveling

Type of feature

• Better privacy/anonymity
• Better at circumventing censorship
• Easier to use
• Other

Operating System

• Android
• iOS
• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

[MrChocolatine]

Not entirely sure but, it seems they are going to implement that for Android in #8559 ? 🤔

[MrChocolatine]

Looks like it is coming to iOS as well: #9048

Swedish servers are being overloaded due them being the default location in all of our clients. The app can infer the current location of the user via https://am.i.mullvad.net/json and it can select a location close to their current location.

[Anvil5465]

@MrChocolatine sounds to me like this is just for first launch of the app rather than a setting that can be enabled and continuously used

[MrChocolatine]

Ah yeah, but at least that seems like a start ✌️ .