Parent company
Apple Inc.
Conglomerate · headquartered in United States · owns 2 VPN brands
Apple restricts third-party tracking partly because it competes with advertising businesses and sells privacy as a feature. It also receives an estimated $20bn a year from Google to keep Google as the default search engine in Safari, a payment central to the US antitrust case against Google.
Brands it controls
Safari 44
Good tracking defences, from the company taking $20bn a year to keep Google as the default.
iCloud Private Relay
Not tracked on this site.
Sources
- https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ — data handling
Verification: needs primary source check, checked 2026-09-06.
Frequently asked
Which VPNs does Apple Inc. own?
Safari, iCloud Private Relay.
Is a VPN owned by Apple Inc. safe?
Ownership does not make a VPN unsafe, but it tells you whose incentives you are trusting. Apple Inc. is conglomerate and headquartered in United States. Apple restricts third-party tracking partly because it competes with advertising businesses and sells privacy as a feature. It also receives an estimated $20bn a year from Google to keep Google as the default search engine in Safari, a payment central to the US antitrust case against Google. Each brand's review on this site scores the audit history and jurisdiction separately.
Does Apple Inc. own any VPN review sites?
Not that we have found. That is worth something: two of the largest VPN owners do.
How do you know this?
From the sources listed on this page — company filings, official brand pages and press releases. Verification status is needs primary source check, last checked 2026-09-06. If you know of a change, contact us.