iOS 26.4.2 Patches flaw that let FBI extract deleted signal messages

I’ve had a more in depth look into this and via DNS. Since activating the Mullvad patch, there has definitely been no outside tunnel leaks. Apple’s own (e.g. gateway.icloud.com, metrics.icloud.com, mask.icloud.com, mask-api.icloud.com) all favoured Apple routing and would frequently ping from my true IP. Their weather one did, too, which was quite frustrating as that weather uses current location. I’ve not had a single instance of this since the Mullvad patch and, prior to this, they would expose my true IP several times a day! In fairness, I didn’t see any other apps bypass the VPN other than Apple. I know it’s possible, and I don’t keep logs for long, but I hadn’t noticed. Although I tried to test this with different apps open prior to making the connection to Mullvad, it always seemed to be Apple domains only. I’ll update again when I get the inevitable update issue, which I’m not looking forward to as I’ll have to update without the VPN on…. Although I do have Proton VPN I could use for that brief period.