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How to turn off a VPN connection on your iPhone

Even if you have one of the best VPN for iPhone apps, you may not want it on all the time. After you’ve got one installed, here’s how to turn it off.

Smartphone screen showing a VPN app connected to a server in Montreal, Canada with options to disconnect or pause the connection.
With an active VPN connection from a VPN provider, you can turn off the connection with the app.

There are many reasons to turn off your VPN. When you’re playing an online game, for example, your non-VPN internet connection is a faster choice. Some work tools use your IP address to identify you, and won’t work right — or at all — if you have an IP address different from what it expects.

Some streaming services won’t work when your VPN connects to another country since they check to see where a user is when launching. Even Google searches can be blocked or throw weird results if you’re showing up as being in an unexpected location.

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