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Doubtful as they'd get on the bad side of a lot of governments doing that. VPNs are something that the upper brass are aware about and will make a fuss about if

• walterbell 8y ago
  In some countries, enabling an IKEv2 VPN on iOS will cause any app (including Apple Mail, Safari or even Settings) to crash the first time it uses the active VPN. Those countries may be exploiting an iOS bug, by injecting packets into IKEv2 streams. Observed for more than a year, still present in iOS11. This doesn't happen with OpenVPN, possibly because it's easier to break OpenVPN wire traffic without compromising the phone OS. The point is: governments can already use VPN traffic as justification for exploiting targeted devices, they don't need any help from Apple. Android has many options for network security, why should Apple be hamstrung by hypothetical governments who will break iOS anyway? Apple customers are paying a premium and still being needlessly exposed on insecure WiFi networks. Millions of Apple users would benefit (motivating device purchases!) if Apple removed their VPN dark patterns from iOS, e.g. make it easy to enable Always-On VPNs which don't leak unprotected packets.