Auto
Picks the fastest for you
Measures the connection and switches between Standard and Turbo to keep it fast and steady.
How Hideon works
What happens to your traffic when Hideon is on, who sees what, and where a VPN stops helping.
The short version
Your iPhone
Encrypts everything before it leaves the phone
Wi-Fi or mobile network
Sees that you use a VPN, not what you do
Hideon server
Unwraps the traffic and sends it on
The website
Sees the server's address, not yours
Without a VPN, the Wi-Fi owner and your internet provider can see which sites you open, and every site sees your IP address, which points to your city and provider.
Connection modes
You pick a mode by what it does, not by protocol name. Every mode encrypts all your traffic.
Turbo
Fastest on weak and mobile networks
Hysteria 2 over QUIC. Keeps its speed when the network loses packets.
Standard
Built into iPhone, easy on the battery
IKEv2, the VPN protocol iOS supports natively. Fast and light.
Turbo and Double VPN are part of Premium. Standard is free on the free locations.
Double VPN
Your traffic goes through two Hideon servers in a row and is encrypted twice. The entry server sees you but not the sites. The exit server sees the sites but not you. By default the entry is the fastest server for you, and the exit is the location you picked.
Kill Switch and Auto-protect
Kill Switch cuts the internet if the VPN drops, so apps don't quietly carry on without it. Auto-protect connects by itself when you join any Wi-Fi, and, if you like, on mobile data too.
What a VPN doesn't do
- It doesn't make you anonymous. If you sign in to a site, the site knows it's you, VPN or not.
- It doesn't stop phishing or malware. A fake login page is just as fake through a VPN.
- It doesn't hide you from Hideon. Our servers carry your traffic. That's why we're specific about what we keep and what we don't.
- It isn't a licence to break rules. A VPN doesn't change what is legal where you are.