Google One VPN rolling out now to iOS with 2TB+ plans

In late 2020, Google launched a VPN for its Google One subscription that gives extra Drive/Images storage, prolonged assist, and different perks. After initially being Android-only, the Google One VPN is now launching on iOS.

Replace 3/3: A month after it was introduced, the Google One VPN is now broadly rolled on iOS. There’s a brand new card on the prime of the House feed and hitting the toggle on the next web page prompts you so as to add the VPN configuration. After confirming your machine passcode, it should seem within the VPN web page of system Settings. Within the Google One app, you’ll be able to “get push notifications when the VPN standing adjustments.”

Authentic 2/1: Entry to the VPN requires a 2TB or increased Google One “Premium” plan that prices $9.99 monthly or $99.99 yearly. (In accordance with the infographic under, the highest tier appears to be like to have additionally simply added “Gold standing” in Play Factors as a perk.) It’s not accessible for the “Primary” (100GB) or “Normal” (200GB).

Afterward, set up the Google One app on iPhone or iPad to begin the set-up course of. As soon as rolled out, there will probably be a card within the House feed with an “Allow VPN” button. The following web page options extra particulars and a toggle, with the iOS “VPN” icon showing within the standing bar as soon as energetic.

Google’s take at a Digital Personal Community is supposed to encrypt your on-line visitors on unsecured networks (like public Wi-Fi) and conceal your IP handle. There aren’t any country-switching choices like different VPNs. The corporate says it should “by no means use the VPN connection to trace, log, or promote your looking exercise.” Moreover, the shopper libraries are open supply and the end-to-end system has been audited by a 3rd celebration.

Google One members can share their plan and VPN, which is offered in 18 international locations, with as much as 5 members of the family without cost.

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Eire, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States

In addition to iOS, the corporate beforehand promised that the Google One VPN will probably be accessible on Mac and Home windows down the highway. The iOS assist remains to be rolling out and we’re not seeing it on our gadgets but.