Reply To: VPN recommendation (East Asia)

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Reney wrote:

Hi all,

I will be in mainland China in January, I am considering signing up to a VPN service, never used one beside from my work laptop before. I will be using mainly iPhone and iPad. Grateful for recommendations that work well with these devices, and prefer a monthly option. Thanks!

I am sure all the above comments are very valid, but I wouldn’t worry too much about VPN anyway. I don’t think there is anything we have ever needed it for other than iPlayer. If you use social media, I guess it’s necessary.

The VPN won’t work with hotel wifi and nor will services like Google, but they work fine on normal 4G/5G. Google Maps works but if walking, it won’t geo-locate you as accurately as normal and if driving doesn’t have access to the traffic data. Apple Maps largely resolves both but has a poor data base of places like restaurants, tourist sites. Didi will locate you very accurately!