iCloud Private Relay

E112753

internet privacy service privacy feature

iCloud Private Relay is an Apple privacy feature that obscures users’ IP addresses and encrypts web traffic in Safari to prevent tracking and profiling across the internet.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
iCloud Private Relay canonical	2
iCloud+ Private Relay	1
iCloud+ with Private Relay	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	internet privacy service ⓘ privacy feature ⓘ
activationMethod	user‑enabled in system settings ⓘ
announcedAt	Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 ⓘ surface form: WWDC 2021
announcedBy	Apple Inc. ⓘ
blockedIn	some countries with regulatory limitations ⓘ
category	online anonymity ⓘ web tracking protection ⓘ
compatibleWith	Wi‑Fi networks ⓘ cellular networks ⓘ
defaultState	off ⓘ
designGoal	preventing any single party from seeing both user identity and destination ⓘ separating IP address from DNS and web request data ⓘ
developer	Apple Inc. ⓘ
differsFrom	VPN services ⓘ
doesNotApplyTo	all app traffic system‑wide ⓘ third‑party browsers on Apple platforms ⓘ
featureOf	Apple privacy features ⓘ
firstRelayOperatedBy	Apple Inc. ⓘ
introducedWith	iOS 15 ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ surface form: iPadOS 15 macOS Monterey ⓘ
limitation	does not allow choosing arbitrary exit countries ⓘ does not hide traffic from the device’s network operator ⓘ
limits	precise IP‑based geolocation ⓘ
marketingPositioning	privacy feature, not a traditional VPN ⓘ
offers	approximate location options for IP address ⓘ
operatedBy	Apple Inc. ⓘ
partOf	iCloud ⓘ surface form: iCloud+
platform	iOS ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ
primaryFunction	encrypting web traffic in Safari ⓘ obscuring user IP addresses ⓘ preventing cross‑site tracking ⓘ reducing user profiling across the internet ⓘ
protects	user IP address privacy ⓘ user location privacy at coarse level ⓘ
requiresSubscription	iCloud ⓘ surface form: iCloud+
scope	DNS queries from Safari ⓘ Safari browsing traffic ⓘ unencrypted HTTP traffic from Safari ⓘ
secondRelayOperatedBy	third‑party content delivery providers ⓘ
statusAtLaunch	beta ⓘ
subjectTo	network and regional availability restrictions ⓘ
uses	dual‑hop relay system ⓘ end‑to‑end encryption for DNS and HTTP requests from Safari ⓘ multi‑hop architecture ⓘ
worksWith	Safari ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: iCloud Private Relay
Description of subject: iCloud Private Relay is an Apple privacy feature that obscures users’ IP addresses and encrypts web traffic in Safari to prevent tracking and profiling across the internet.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

iCloud → supportsFeature → iCloud Private Relay ⓘ

Hide My Email → relatedFeature → iCloud Private Relay ⓘ

this entity surface form: iCloud+ Private Relay

macOS Monterey → includedFeature → iCloud Private Relay ⓘ

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 → unveiled → iCloud Private Relay ⓘ

this entity surface form: iCloud+ with Private Relay