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It is deeply disappointing how poorly Apple implements privacy tools and technologies.

To wit:

It is 2025 and you cannot configure a DoH endpoint in Safari on either iOS or OSX.

Further, enabling DoH in iOS involves an experts-only plist file download which has many esoteric failure modes that are difficult to track and have poor (nonexistent ?) documentation.

Finally, any regular person (like my wife) will have an almost immediate need to toggle adblocking DNS on and off for (weird site that breaks) but, of course, that is not possible without going through the entire plist file workflow twice (once to remove (not disable) the existing profile and once to re-download it).

Ridiculous. Embarrassing.



I might be misunderstanding your problem, but if you want to easily switch DNS there is an iOS app I was using. Sadly, don’t remember what it was called, but I’m sure an AppStore search will yield possible solutions


We should not need an app - nor a fraught trust model and software supply chain analysis - to set a basic network setting.

I appreciate your help but I'm not downloading some rando app to set a DNS server.

Your child is getting flagged/downvoted for pointing out that Android has actual DNS settings and that person is correct.


Maybe we should not have the app to do that, but we can have it and personally I missed that one tap convenience on my Mac.


FWIW: you can disable DoH without uninstalling the profile. General -> VPN & device management -> DNS -> automatic.




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