IPv6 on Your iPhone or iPad

Not correct. This has been a frequent response and it’s inaccurate. It’s because Private Relay is turned on in the iCloud settings. I posted this question solely so I could answer it correctly for other users that have asked. Please stop providing this wrong answer whenever users ask about IPv6 on their device(s).

To anyone that stumbles upon this thread, you can turn it off entirely in your iCloud settings, or you can disable on a per network basis in your Wi-Fi settings. You can also use iCloud settings to use your general location, or your country + time-zone.

More details and settings can be found here: About iCloud Private Relay - Apple Support

Apple's iCloud Private Relay scores a 10/10 on Test-IPv6.com, so I do encourage you leave it on. This setting provides your device additional security from websites tracking you.

Something else worth mentioning. Apple's Private Relay uses Cloudflare as their second relay. Cloudflare wrote a helpful blog about how the technology works. You can find that here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/

I found this part to be very interesting:

”Private Relay egress nodes prefer IPv6 whenever AAAA DNS records are available, and use IPv6 egress IP addresses that are geolocated with greater precision than their IPv4 equivalents. This means you can geolocate users to more specific locations (without compromising user privacy) and deliver more relevant content to users as a result.”