Hi All,
I have adguard installed on my system and when accessing websites with my iPhone on IOS 27 I still see ads when on my home wifi network. When I am on 5G network with a fireguard vpn connected to my Opnsense server, the ads are to visible and add blocking works. I did put adguard as my primary dns in the settings. Any idea what could be happening?
Tks!
I am guessing some of the traffic re-routing crap that Apple applies to all it's devices and OS versions : Have you tried to disable all of it ?
I am also guessing that things start to work via the VPN because they have to respect the VPN DNS settings and can't mess around with them :)
Tks Neo355, you hit the nail! Disabling connectivity assist in the settings did the trick. Apparently you adguard blocks an ad iOS interprets the lack of response as a failing wifi network and enables a fallback feature that bypasses adlblockers and adding new encrypted dns controls. All solved, tks.
Quote from: krissilon on September 21, 2026, 04:16:24 PMDisabling connectivity assist in the settings did the trick.
I think that's it indeed and is also related to this :
- https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/#icloudprivaterelay
- https://developer.apple.com/icloud/prepare-your-network-for-icloud-private-relay/
So if you can apply some of that "trickery" to AdGuard you can solve the issue that way too I guess ?!
Thank you and will try this as well! Great support on this forum for a newbie, appreciate!