[proneb1rd]

Most of what you see is probably Apple bypassing all VPNs to talk to their own servers.

There are more serious problems though, with any app being able to bypass VPN simply by prohibiting Wi-Fi interface and iOS gladly letting all traffic via LTE, unfiltered. That's been described in https://blog.disconnect.me/ios-vpn-leak-advisory/.

It's well known and pretty sad that these issues go unaddressed for years. VPN developers have little power to change that given that VPN apps run in a walled garden of Apple in a sandboxed environment. Hence the the best effort at this point with a hope that this can addressed in the coming updates.

It would be great if more of these pop up on Apple forums and Apple Feedback with people demanding improvements on transparency and privacy from the company.

So far reading your blog post looks like a recollection of what's been going on.

I really wanna throw an analogy of a bear waking up from hibernation. This is not sensational and just reiterates what's been said before you, yet the title throws a shadow at VPNs just to sound like it.