Apple's iCloud Private Relay, which protects paying iCloud users from online trackers, has experienced an outage affecting major markets, restricting users' access to web services and apps that use their internet connection.
TechCrunch understands that iCloud Private Relay downtime has been affecting some Apple users in markets including Europe, India, Japan and the U.S. since at least Thursday. The sporadic downtime has left users unable to access the web with the Safari browser and has reported internet connection issues with installed apps.
Apple's System Status web page confirmed the latest iCloud Private Relay outage, saying the service may be “slow or unavailable” for some users.
iCloud Private Relay, launched in 2021 exclusively for iCloud+ subscribers, helps protect Apple users from online trackers by encrypting the traffic passing through customers' devices. The DNS service uses two separate Internet relays to send requests, limiting the ability of web trackers and Internet service providers to combine a user's IP address, location, and browsing activity to profile them. It uses the Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS protocol, which Apple designed in collaboration with Cloudflare in 2020.
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Apple did not respond to a request for comment.