`NEPacketTunnelProvider` configuration rarely gets duplicated

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nemecek_f OP

Created Sep ’22

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Hello,

with iOS 16 (multiple betas), I noticed that our VPN configuration created with NEPacketTunnelProvider appears twice in Settings -> General -> VPN & Device Management.

I thought that this shouldn't be possible (even if I wanted to) because on iOS apps can provide just one configuration?

All the basic configuration for your VPN is static. providerBundleIdentifier & serverAddress are contants in the source code.

The only thing that gets changed is onDemandRules.

When I inspected the configurations details in Settings, they were identical.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

because on iOS apps can provide just one configuration?

Really? But NETunnelProviderManager has a +loadAllFromPreferencesWithCompletionHandler: method, suggesting that there can be more than one.

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Answer 2

nemecek_f OP

Sep ’22

Hmm you are right, I seem to remember this limitation but have no idea where I first spotted it and cannot find it now. So perhaps I misremember this requirement.

These methods are also available on macOS - so I thought that having multiple VPN configs works there.

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