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You can download the mobile apps direct from the App Store or Play Store, and the Windows and macOS apps from the official OpenVPN website. We did not detect any WebRTC leaks on other platforms, although no app-based protection will ever be as robust as a browser-based solution. In iOS, the fact that Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, do not support WebRTC makes the issue of whether OpenVPN Connect for iOS prevents WebRTC leaks rather moot. In the very unlikely event you did experience an IPv6 leak or an IPv6 DNS leak, selecting this option would almost certainly fix the problem. It should be noted that the app includes an option to route VPN connections over IPv4 only.
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OpenVPN Connect supports full Pv6 routing, though, so we would be surprised if it leaked IPv6 addresses in any way. Our internet connection does not support IPv6 at the present time, so we have not been able to test IPv6 performance. We detected no IPv4 DNS leaks in on any platform. How this app has sidestepped the restrictions which prevent over VPN apps from using OpenVPN we have no idea, but that is the case. Or to put it another way, the only way to use OpenVPN on an iOS device is with OpenVPN Connect. It is for this reason that no custom iOS VPN app we know of uses the OpenVPN protocol. OpenVPN on iOSĪpple’s strict iOS developer guidelines (and licensing restrictions) basically prohibit the use of OpenVPN in iOS. There is no getting away, however, from the fact that everything we know about the NSA suggests compromising a privacy tool such as OpenVPN Connect could be high on its to-do list.įor non- iOS users we strongly recommend using open source alternatives instead. The fact that it is developed by the same team which develops the OpenVPN protocol, the most trusted VPN protocol there is, speaks highly in its favor. But OpenVPN Connect is a generic app that could, in theory, be used to spy on your internet activity no matter which VPN provider it is configured to use. We have argued before that open source matters less than usual when it comes to custom VPN apps because the VPN provider can see everything you do online, anyway. is a US-based company and OpenVPN Connect is a closed source app.
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It is worth noting that the newer version of Android (Nougat 7+) includes a real kill switch that works with any VPN app (including OpenVPN Connect). It, therefore, functions in many ways as a kill switch but does not appear to be as robust as a true kill switch. Seamless tunnel (mobile apps only)Īccording to the documentation, this feature does a "best-effort to keep the tunnel active during pause, resume, and reconnect states.” It "can reduce the incidence of packet leakage by keeping the tunnel continuously engaged until it is manually disconnected.”
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This functionality is not the focus of this review but is covered in our guide on How to create your own VPN server.
OpenVPN Connect makes it very easy to connect to a VPN server setup using the OpenVPN Access Server software. We cannot find any confirmation, but consider it fair to assume that OpenVPN Connect always uses the most up-to-date version of the OpenVPN protocol. Most such edits are supported, although there is a small list of ones which are not is available.
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This review forms part of a series of articles which examine the main generic OpenVPN apps on each major platform – the others being OpenVPN GUI for Windows, Tunnelblick for macOS, and OpenVPN for Android. OpenVPN Connect is a generic OpenVPN app for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS that can be used with any VPN service which supports the OpenVPN protocol.