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You don't have to keep your devices connected to your TailNet at all times, but I really see a benefit to disabling it.

If you want to, though, from the Tailscale menu bar on macOS, for example, you can enable and disable Tailscale.

You also get access to a lot more information.

You can see the Tailnet IP address of the device you're currently using, and there's a flyout window to show you all of the devices on your network.

As I mentioned earlier, selecting any of them copies their Tailnet IP address to your clipboard.

If you open Settings from the Menu Bar app, on the Accounts tab, there's a button to take you to the Admin Console, and that's going to launch a web interface.

This is where the real heavy lifting of Tailscale occurs.

You can also get there by navigating in your web browser to console.tailscale.com and logging in.