My app communicates to another device through a Wireguard VPN. The two devices are configured to only speak to each other in the app through the VPN. Because of this, there is no reason for the VPN to be active (on the iOS device) when the app is not running.
Is there a way to hide the VPN from Settings or have the Network Extension check if the app is running and deactivate itself if the app is not running?
Is this deployed in a managed environment? If so, it sounds like using per-app VPN would be your best option. That way the VPN is only available to your app, meaning that it’s up/down state isn’t really an issue any more.
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How does that differ from using a Packet Tunnel? Can you point me in right direction to get started?
Ken
FYI I found very little info about Per-App VPNs. Most documents go over the configuration files.
Start with Network Extension Docs https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension
NETunnelProviderManager and NEAppProxyProvider provide the most direct info on Per-App VPNs.
NETunnelProviderManager https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/netunnelprovidermanager
NEAppProxyProvider https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/neappproxyprovider
