Some apps say no internet connection

If you're referring to social media sites

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are down right now, give it a little while and try again.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/tech/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage/index.html

Mgalindo0630 wrote:

How do I find hidden ones?

Hidden what? VPNs? Did you install an add-on VPN app? If not, this thread seemingly isn't related to whatever you're encountering. The VPN apps being discussed are add-on apps intended for use by those that wish to have their network activities monitored and logged, while ~negligibly increasing security the first few hops to the internet.

(This add-on VPN app as differentiated from a VPN that’s used for and necessary to connect into the private network of an associated organization, and that generally does further secure network traffic against eavesdropping.)

If there are no add-on VPN apps installed, update your iPhone to 15.0.1 (current), as a starting point, and test again.

I've been having the same problem since the software upgrade. iPhone works fine no Internet problems sitting side-by-side with an iPad that tells me there's no Internet. Happens multiple times a day. Very aggravating

Mine is not connected to a VPN. I have none. So, what is going on? Tried to use an app to get ice cream and couldn't get it to open and it kept telling me I wasn't connected to the internet. I did notice I was on LTE. Which seems to be the norm. Why have 5G if you can't access it.

Thank you so much, my VPN was turned off so I didn't think it could be the problem, and I couldn't figure out how to delete the app, but when I searched as you suggested, delete was an option and that fixed my problem!! Not sure why it randomly started causing problems though. Anyway Thank you!!

I have tried going into settings, searching VPN, clicking on VPN and device management, it shows VPN not connected. There is nothing to delete. I have no VPN's. My iPad is constantly dropping the Internet connection. It's on for a couple minutes off for a couple minutes on for a couple minutes off for a couple minutes. Makes it impossible to complete any transactions. Please help. This is an iPhone 12 with the latest software

I had the exact same issue on i8 plus, needed to delete my VPN settings( Even though VPN was turned off 🤯) Settings / search/ VPN and Device management/ Delete all files.

problem solved after hours of mucking about.

No. The problem still persists. Terribly frustrating. I’ve gone from loving my iPad to hating it. New iPad pro purchased in September 2021, all software updates installed. Have tried every suggested solution with no luck.

I was advised by someone on this thread to delete VPN and it worked! My issues went away. bizarre b/c it was never enabled in the settings but in a buried General / VPN / Better VPN area, it had some 'connect automatically' that i disabled and then I just deleted the whole dang thing. problems solved.

It’s *definitely* the VPN. I had this same problem and for days I tried to figure it out. Even almost went to the apple store with my warranty. But as soon as I deleted my VPN everything worked normal again. DELETE YOUR VPN.

thank god for the internet

This just happened to me as well and when I read that it might be VPN related, I opened NordVPN app and it showed it was continually connecting/disconnecting. I usually have VPN off so I don’t know if that condition started on last use and didn’t properly disconnect or it started doing it on its own. What I did to resolve was actually press connect and it successfully connected. I checked apps and they were working again. I then disconnected and made sure it wasn’t in that weird state and checked apps again and they were still working.

thank you for posting this resolution, since it only affected some apps for me and was driving me crazy

I still don’t know how to delete the VPN. There is no option to delete in settings. Only off and on. Please advise. This is my sons phone and I can’t fix it which is causing life 360 and others not to work.

KLSTEXAS wrote:

I still don’t know how to delete the VPN. There is no option to delete in settings. Only off and on. Please advise. This is my sons phone and I can’t fix it which is causing life 360 and others not to work.

I’d keep either return it to your son, or (with permission) keep removing the add-on “security” apps until you get back to a working system, or (if this is intended to be your phone) reset it and reload and switch to your own Apple ID and related; to make this iPhone yours.

NortonLifeLock 360 was reportedly including a cryptominer in some of its versions, too. Probably not iOS and iPadOS, but not a product nor a product feature I’d prefer to have on my systems.

I just solved a similar issue on my iPhone 11. I had just downloaded an app which warned me that it only worked on iOS 14 or higher, so I had to update my phones iOS from 13.xx to 15.3.1. I downloaded the app but when I tried to launch it, I got repeated warnings that it couldn't connect to the internet and would go no further. After reading this thread I did a search and found this article concerning iOS 15 and its new pseudo VPN for iCloud users:

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-use-private-relay-safari-ios/

I went to Settings : Apple ID : iCloud : Private Relay (Beta) (as described in the linked article)

Enabled Private Relay and checked "maintain general location" under IP address location.

Tried the app once more and it successfully opened and ran.

Davidminor07 wrote:

i have a problem with one of app not connected on my iPhone 12 Pro Max dose any one know what is going on with that

Remove any add-on VPN apps and add-on “security” apps, restart the iPhone, and try again.

Failing that, restart your W-iFi router, and try again.

Failing that, remove the app, restart the iPhone, and reload the app, and try again.

Failing that, contact the app support folks.