iCloud Private Relay can help protect your privacy by hiding your identity and location when browsing on Safari. This feature is currently in beta, only available in iOS 15 or macOS Monterey or later, ...

When Apple pushed iOS 15 out to more than a billion devices in September, the software update included the company’s first VPN-like feature, iCloud Private Relay. The subscription-only privacy tool ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Apple has always painted itself as a champion of user privacy, going above and beyond to provide features that protect its customers from prying eyes. It has become both popular and unpopular for its ...

It’s like a mini-VPN that uses iCloud to protect your online privacy. ISPs (internet service providers) can generally track your IP address and your DNS records to learn about where you are from and ...

Apple’s Private Relay feature calls home to Apple servers without respecting the firewall rules of the system, creating a leak that neither we, nor you, can stop without disabling the entire Private ...

iCloud+ Private Relay is a feature that Apple added on its iPhone and iPad with iOS, as well as with iPadOS 15. With the release of macOS Monterey, Mac users can use it now too. The feature is not ...

Apple has slightly changed some words from its previous notice about the iCloud Private Relay error. The old message said that mobile carriers should be "solely ...

Per a recent Substack Writers post: After investigating, our team has determined that the recent decline in reported open rates is likely due to an outage with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay. However, ...

Apple's Private Relay feature in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey may only be a public beta at launch, but it's still a boon for privacy - except it won't always play nice with other VPNs you may have.

In today's iOS 15.3 beta, Apple has updated the wording that people see when iCloud Private Relay is disabled for a cellular or WiFi network, clarifying that when it's off, it's not always because of ...

One of the new security features arriving with iOS 15 brings a new level of privacy to web browsing beyond what VPNs offer. But while the feature boasts total encryption, there is a potential downside ...