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This should trend to the top of HN. Apple bills themselves as a privacy-centric company. I hope they clean this up asap.

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It is clear that Apple’s privacy efforts are only aimed at privacy for you from organisations that aren’t Apple.

Apple doesn’t really care about preserving your privacy from Apple (and by extension the FBI).

They maintain backdoors in iMessage specifically to preserve the ability of Apple/FBI to read your messages:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

The fact that Apple OSes leak your true IP (and thus city-level location) to Apple around your VPN is not an issue to Apple; it may even be intentionally preserved this way to aid investigations.

Marketing is king. Any one's guess what Apple cares about most.

iOS devices create lot of weird traffic on local network. And the only meanigful-ish other packet trace seems like APNS subscription update and some kind of iCloud traffic, there is probably zero reason why would you want that to go through “VPN” tunnel.

There are times when it might be useful to separate out different types of traffic to separate interfaces. I kind of wish there was an easy way to set rules like "Anything I do over these applications should go through the VPN, some of the random traffic my OS constantly spews in the background should be sent through the unsecured connection, but anything going out to these networks should just be blackholed" but I haven't come across one.

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