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Applications like Charles [1] allow you monitor network connections and data closely. Apple do not actively prevent this. You can also setup a VPN to route tra
by ntSean 6y ago
Applications like Charles [1] allow you monitor network connections and data closely. Apple do not actively prevent this.
You can also setup a VPN to route traffic and strictly firewall.
[1] https://www.charlesproxy.com https://www.charlesproxy.com
- m463 6y agoCharles must have some wild carveout from apple. All other apps that do that have been shut down. I still run a very old version of adblockios that starts a vpn (proxy) at 127.0.0.1 and blocks traffic that way. mostly.
- mbreese 6y agoI think the parental control app Circle does something similar (faux-vpn proxy). When I tried using Circle, it seemed a bit convoluted to me, so we ended up uninstalling it. So, I’m not sure how unique this method is. But, I’m not sure I can think of another way for a network blocking/security app to work on iOS.
- ignoramous 6y agohttps://firewalla.com https://firewalla.com is another one.
- bigiain 6y agoCharles is great, but it can't view the data for any app running pinned certificates.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThis works as long as the app does not enforce certificate pinning. But if it does, there's no way to override it and inspect what's actually going on, as I can on my desktop.