WireGuard Configurations Gone After iOS 15 Upgrade

Anatoli me at anatoli.ws
Wed Sep 22 22:24:05 UTC 2021


I can confirm that recreating the tunnel from scratch does work. So the problem is that the tunnel settings become corrupted when iOS is upgraded from 13.x / 14.x to 15.0.

Here are some printscreens of how it looks like (in Spanish):

Tunnel details look this way:
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When on the previous screen you click Edit, the edit page opens this way:
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When you try to activate such a tunnel, you get the error saying: ?Activation failure: it wasn?t possible to recover the tunnel information from the saved configuration?
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> On 22 Sep 2021, at 16:28, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> 
> ?Hi all,
> 
> I've got a new build submitted to the App Store, and so now we wait
> for Apple's review.
> 
> I do not understand the root cause or how it might resolve itself yet,
> because I haven't been able to reproduce. But I've removed the
> ridiculous code that deletes network profiles when the keychain can't
> be opened. My hope is that the open failure is transient, and so this
> fix will be sufficient to unwedge it. I guess we'll see...
> 
> Jason


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