This video shows that iOS bypasses an active VPN connection to communicate with Apple services. We reported this issue before in this video [ Ссылка ] (October, 2022). VPN promises that all network traffic should be sent through a VPN channel. Analyzing the network traffic from an iPhone running iOS 16.5.1, the latest at the time of this video, shows that Apple Push Notification traffic bypasses the VPN connection completely. In addition, Apple Maps still communicates with Apple servers outside the established VPN tunnel. It even sends unencrypted DNS requests outside the tunnel.


Proton Team reported this issue to Apple in 2020 for iOS 13: [ Ссылка ]


We independently tested the same scenario on devices running iOS 16, and now we repeated the experiment on iOS 16.5.1 (c) and iPadOS 17 beta 3. The issue also persists in the Lockdown Mode. The Lockdown Mode was off in this video.

iOS 16.6 also bypasses the VPN.

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