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From my understanding they are both blocked (or atleast not available on chinese app stores). I believe imessage & facetime would work, except my relatives don'
by helen___keller 6y ago
From my understanding they are both blocked (or atleast not available on chinese app stores). I believe imessage & facetime would work, except my relatives don't have iPhones.
Realistically, if it came down to it my plan was to buy a VPN to china, and if that wasn't good enough to unlock wechat, to send relatives an iPhone. A simple app store block is a lot easier to get around, luckily.
- derwiki 6y agoOT: is there a trick to getting a VPN that works reliably? I’ve tried a different one each time I’ve visited and none have worked well enough for basic web browsing
- helen___keller 6y agoAre you talking about a VPN into china or a VPN out to the western internet? For the latter, I don't know if this still works but last time I visited China my Google Fi plan (which has a built in VPN https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9040000?hl=en https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9040000?hl=en ) actually worked with no further changes, so I was able to pretend I was on western internet over 4G the entire time I was in China. This was in early 2019. Which is lucky for me because the school VPN I was initially relying on stopped working halfway through the trip.