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SSL-certificate error on mobile data

Hey!


So I've got a family member who is not able to get help from these types of forums so I'll do it for her.

When she tries to use any form of mobile-data (not WiFi) she gets a SSL-certificate error on whatever she tries to do. It can be access a banking app or browsing with Safari (the error message is different based on the app used but it's always something along the lines of "Could not establish safe SSL-connection)


Here is a check list of information and solution attempts:

  1. The phone is updated to the latest version of iOS.
  2. The entire phone has been wiped and reset to factory default.
  3. Tried another iPhone (iPhone 13) (non-carrier locked) still same SLL-error
  4. She has ordered an entirly new physical SIM-card and changed to that.
  5. New/Old SIM-card does NOT work in ANY phone, not just this iPhone.
  6. Carrier claims nothing is wrong on their end.
  7. Her phone/SIM-card setup has been working flawless for 1 year and started acting weird 1-2 weeks ago.

Note: This is not an SSL-error associated with e-mail or any specific service. Her e-mail works on the phone when on WiFi.


So I guess the questions then are:

  1. Can something be done to fix this kind of SSL-error on the user side of things i.e. do something in the phone settings?
  2. Is this a carrier problem after all and up to them to fix? And out of curiousity, what may have happened? Lost certificate?


I'm sort of techy but this seems like an error that could be difficult to fix, on either side...

Thanks for any help!

iPhone 11

Posted on Jun 18, 2022 7:15 AM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2022 10:41 AM

Does the phone have a VPN app and VPN profile installed? If it does, remove both.

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Jun 18, 2022 10:43 AM in response to BenneBoii

Please borrow a SIM from another carrier and check the same for this error.


  1. Is this a corporate iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of the corporate
  2. If it is their personal device, in that case, do they have any profile installed by a corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management?
    1. Erase the profile added by them If someone has installed a profile on their device --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
    2. Or please contact the system administrator of the organisation who provided the profile to you


I am confident this is not an iPhone settings issue.


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Jun 18, 2022 11:04 AM in response to SravanKrA

  1. The phone is private, the SIM has gone into another iPhone also private with no success.
  2. Wiped phone, nothing on it. Checked for these things anyways, empty, good call tho.


The phones work with SIMs from other carriers so I'm conviced it's actually a carrier issue. I just thought that maybe there was a workaround for that on the phone (missing setting etc, I'm on Android myself). Thanks for your answers!


(side note on the screenshots: Phone is in Swedish and screenshots would do little to nothing here. The messages were all different but one translated to: "An SSL-error occured and a safe connection could not be established." I choose to not include swedish here.)

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Jun 18, 2022 10:39 AM in response to BenneBoii

BenneBoii wrote:

1. Hey!

(the error message is different based on the app used but it's always something along the lines of "Could not establish safe SSL-connection)

At least one error message screenshot would have helped.


It would be better if you can please re-post with a screenshot, in order to understand the phenomenon better. Images/pictures speak louder than words. 


Please understand this is a public forum: While attaching a Screenshot, do not provide any personal credentials, such as IP address, Card detail, email id, apple id, IMEI number, Serial Number, Phone number, Order ID, if you are sharing a map ensure your location is not identifiable, etc.



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