VyprVPN: VPN Secure & Private

I will share this in case someone else runs into the same issue. purchased a new iPad Air Gen 5 and wanted to use this VPN. It works flawlessly on my iPhone. When I setup my iPad I pretty much did the iPhone backup so all the apps that were on my iPhone would be available on my iPad. When I tried using the VPN it wouldn’t connect. I went to customized and attempted to use all the different connection types, but it still wouldn’t work. I wondered if maybe it was reading it as an iPhone instead of an iPad and that was the issue. I deleted the app on my iPad and reinstalled it. IT WORKED!!!! So if you just recently bought an iPad and did the backup from your iPhone and this app is not working, uninstall and then reinstall and that should hopefully fix your problem. It did for me.

I’ve actually been trying to chill myself before writing this review, because I don’t want my rage to confuse others. The simple fact for me is that, I trusted VyprVPN, but their terrible service caused me not only anxiety, but also economical lost. Before I left U.S. for China, I checked different VPN companies, because I know that Chinese Fire Wall would cause me lost connection with the world outside. VyprVPN advertises itself, saying it has a team consistently working on breaking the Chinese Fire Wall, so I payed for a year’s service. However, the truth is that their servers do not response most of the time, and my MacBook VyprVPN does not even try to connect when I click the “Connect” button! I could not check my gmail, or my Messenger, which fact made me almost isolated from my friends and colleagues outside of China for two weeks until a friend in China helped me find another VPN service, free to use and much more reliable. During which time, I lost a check sent from the U.S. due to the fact that I could not update my address in China. I really hope that no one else would fall into such terrible situation as I did. Please reconsider if you are planning to use VyprVPN for serious reasons. And do not pay them anything! Since I just learned that there are other VPN services that are free to use, and that, more importantly, really work!

I’ve been using the VyprVPN service on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac for about a year now. I find the iOS app to generally work with fewer issues than the Mac app (which I won’t review here). The iOS app works well in general. Auto-reconnect is a happy feature, and the service has worked great for me from multiple locations, including public WiFi networks. Sometime to access, those, however, requires temporarily disabling the VPN app from trying to connect in order to pass through the initial login/interstitial page for public WiFi (maybe that’s a feature that the VPN app could facilitate just a bit better...allowing the WiFi login page to pop up, but nothing else, before trying to connect to the VPN?). Still, it nearly always works without me having to think about it, and I rest easy knowing that my data is more protected when on public networks. The times I’ve had the most trouble with the service—and that’s not very often—have been when my phone (not the tablet) is trying to switch between WiFi networks or between WiFi and 4G data. Then, there have been isolated instances where the iOS VPN login keeps popping up a dialog that was difficult to make go away, especially if I didn’t have my password handy (canceling should allow me to at least proceed without an internet connection). I’m not sure if this behavior is the fault of iOS’s VPN function or the VyperVPN app, but the support from VyperVPN was helpful when I contacted them about it and the app reinstallation procedure recommended by the support team seems to have helped resolve the issue. Overall, between the app almost always doing what it’s supposed to and the responsive support team, I would recommend the service and the iOS app.