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Ok, can you route every connection(besides the vpn one) from an iphone to a vpn gateway?

If it isn't possible, anyone can explain why?

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Seems very easy: https://www.howtogeek.com/215730/how-to-connect-to-a-vpn-fro...

I don't have and iDevice so I don't know for sure, why do you think this'd be a problem? Or am I misunderstanding your question?

Yeah..thanks for the info. I got it wrong. There's no built-in support for openvpn in iOS.

There sorta is. Install the OpenVPN app, load your ovpn config, and connect. After you do that, there will be a VPN option on the homepage of your settings that will use the connection automatically and will keep you connected when switching networks.

Source: Figured it out over the weekend and have been pleased by it for the past few days.

Pretty much. You use OpenVPN Connect (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openvpn-connect/id590379981?...) and set up openvpn on a VPS somewhere. The only exceptions are a few things like Facetime and Apple's push service, which are given special routing treatment by iOS—they skip the VPN.

The iPhone has a built-in VPN client. I've only used it (the IKEv1 client, specifically) to access stuff on my home network, but I have no reason to think that it doesn't respect the routes that the server offers.

Use a wifi router that supports a VPN so all your devices use it without per-device setup.

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