IPv6 dual stack support for mobile network on iPhone

Hi,


I have a new iPhone 6s with iOS 9.2 installed and want to have a IPv6 address from my mobile network carrier (German T-Mobile). This now already took my hours of research on the web and on the phone to get where I am now. I've already got in touch with the T-Mobile Support and asked whether there are any problems with IPv6 support. But T-Mobile stated that their APN already support IPv6 on dual stack basis. So I thought my iPhone is using the old APN without IPv6 support. As it's obviously no longer possible to change the APN settings manually within the cellular settings in iOS, I used the Apple Configurator 2.2 instead to manually create a profile with the new IPv6-ready dual stack APN settings from T-Mobile, i.e. "internet.t-mobile" or "internet.telekom" and I installed this profile on my iPhone. But unfortunately this didn't work neither. I still don't get an IPv6 address.


Now I read the information that it seems that iOS does not support dual stack (IPv4/IPv6) for mobile networks. Could anybody confirm?

Is there any release date by when Apple will support this? Or is there any workaround to get this done?


Thanks and regards

Julian

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.2

Posted on Jan 2, 2016 1:25 PM

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Jan 17, 2016 9:48 AM in response to mercanix

I googled "iOS ipv6" and got a bunch of hits.


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipv6-toolkit/id440597511

https://www.quora.com/Does-iOS-device-iphone-ipad-support-IPv6

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984015/ipv6-will-get-a-big-boost-from-ios-9-face book-says.html

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/06/apple-will-require-ipv6-su pport-for-all-ios-9-apps/


I read them quickly but came away thinking Apple's not your issue. They seem to be on top of this. I'd guess T-Mobile is your obstacle.

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Jul 18, 2016 4:03 PM in response to LACAllen

It's not an issue in T-Mobile US it's an issue is Germany where the Mother Concern Called Telekom(T-Mobile DE).

As per developer tools from Apple and other settings it's only occur in iPhone 5/c 32 Bit. After 5s there is native IPv6 with /64 prefix. It's actually matter of Apple and Telekom Deutschland GmbH with their network settings. Till yet with iOS Beta 10.😕

See an screenshot.User uploaded file

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