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by oxplot 1551 days ago
iCloud Private Relay is shown as affected as well. This is an interesting case when it comes to failure behavior. From security perspective, you want your connection to stop working instead of falling back to insecure. Is this the case? Can anyone confirm?
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It fell back to insecure for me, for about 30 seconds (maybe longer before I noticed) I couldn’t connect to the Internet from my iPhone, then I got a notification saying private relay was unavailable and I was able to connect again.

A few minutes later it gave me another notification saying private relay was working again.

iCloud Private Relay is not designed to be a full-fledged VPN anyway. HTTPS traffic in apps (other than browsers) bypasses it AFAIK.