In the user interface, Apple says:
iCloud Private Relay keeps your internet activity private Private Relay hides your IP address and browsing activity in Safari and protects your unencrypted internet traffic so that no one-including Apple-can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting
BUT when I look at the Apple IT support documentation the above is contradicted.
Based on it, what would be true is:
iCloud Private Relay keeps your WEB activity private Private Relay hides your IP address and browsing activity in Safari and protects your unencrypted WEB and UNENCRYPTED APP traffic.
In addition to the corrections I made above, the rest of it (below) is just…terribly problematic! I’m not even sure how to correct it but it’s wrong. Agreed? I mean any aware user is (likely) going to know that if you tell a website like your bank) who you are, while using iCloud private relay (IPR), it will know who and where you are. But they’ll also know your IP, since Apple is saying only to us that encrypted internet traffic doesn’t go through IPR. This would include HTTPS, SMTPS, IMAPS, GOPHERS, … And even a fairly savvy user reading the following isn’t going to realize that Apple is not fixing the Panopticon problem, meaning that as is, the following part is generally false and de deceiving:
…so that no one-including Apple-can
see both who you are and what sites you're visiting.
What’s a customer going to think when they realize that our apps aren’t delivering what Apple‘s promising because it’s inconsistent about what is promising to who?
Is there already discussion going on about this? seems like a big issue…
Fortunately, Apple is saying the product is in beta, so they will likely be extra open to and relatively responsive to feedback. But I wanted to talk with other developers about it so that’s why am bringing it up here. Maybe I’m misunderstanding stuff.
