PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address
9:52 AM PDT · August 5, 2026
Apple’s Private Relay, an opt-in feature designed to hide a user’s IP address when they browse the internet with Safari, can be circumvented to reveal the supposedly hidden IP address due to a series of flaws.
Researchers revealed the issues in a blog post on Tuesday. The researchers also set up a website where anyone can check if their real IP address leaks, even if they use Private Relay. In a test on Tuesday, TechCrunch verified that the site was able to reveal our real IP address.
The issue was first reported by 404 Media.
Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk, the researchers who found the issue, wrote in their blog post that the problem lies with three features in Apple’s web browser engine WebKit, which is used by all browsers in iOS. Private Relay is only available to iCloud+ subscribers,...
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