Most of the time I have iCloud Private Relay enabled. Occasionally I use Mullvad VPN. Recently, I do not know exactly when, this combination stopped working.
After installation of Mullvad VPN, iCloud Private Relay is not working anymore. I get this pop-up stating
> **Private Relay Unavailable** Your system settings are incompatible with Private Relay.
Uninstalling Mullvad VPN and rebooting brings Private Relay back to life. But I still want to use Mullvad VPN now and then. So that's not a permanent solution.
I tried to manually disable all Mullvad components. To do this, I ranthe first part of the Mullvad uninstall script , see below. After running this script and turning private relay off and on I still get the same error.
echo "Stopping GUI process ..."
sudo pkill -x "Mullvad VPN" || echo "No GUI process found"
echo "Stopping and unloading mullvad-daemon system daemon ..."
DAEMON_PLIST_PATH="/Library/LaunchDaemons/net.mullvad.daemon.plist"
sudo launchctl unload -w "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo rm -f "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo dscl . -delete /groups/mullvad-exclusion || echo "Failed to remove 'mullvad-exclusion' group"
echo "Resetting firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup reset-firewall || echo "Failed to reset firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup remove-device || echo "Failed to remove device from account"
On further investigation I found the following issue Mullvad-daemon (without VPN active) on macOS Ventura disrupts iCloud Private Relay #4215 . On the Mullvad GitHub. So it's a common problem.
What I am know looking for is a workaround. Is it possible to temporarily disable Mullvad and enable Private Relay again, without uninstall and reboot?
This issue exists with Mullvad VPN
Uninstalling Mullvad VPN and rebooting brings Private Relay back to life. But I still want to use Mullvad VPN now and then. So that's not a permanent solution.
I tried to manually disable all Mullvad components. To do this, I ranthe first part of the Mullvad uninstall script , see below. After running this script and turning private relay off and on I still get the same error.
echo "Stopping GUI process ..."
sudo pkill -x "Mullvad VPN" || echo "No GUI process found"
echo "Stopping and unloading mullvad-daemon system daemon ..."
DAEMON_PLIST_PATH="/Library/LaunchDaemons/net.mullvad.daemon.plist"
sudo launchctl unload -w "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo rm -f "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo dscl . -delete /groups/mullvad-exclusion || echo "Failed to remove 'mullvad-exclusion' group"
echo "Resetting firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup reset-firewall || echo "Failed to reset firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup remove-device || echo "Failed to remove device from account"
On further investigation I found the following issue Mullvad-daemon (without VPN active) on macOS Ventura disrupts iCloud Private Relay #4215 . On the Mullvad GitHub. So it's a common problem.
What I am know looking for is a workaround. Is it possible to temporarily disable Mullvad and enable Private Relay again, without uninstall and reboot?
This issue exists with Mullvad VPN 2022.05 on both macOS 13.1 and 13.2.1
Asked by DisOwnLimes
(11 rep)
Feb 4, 2023, 06:06 PM
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