I’ve personally encountered this issue several times over the past few weeks, and it seems to have gotten particularly bad this week.

While your mileage may vary depending on where you live - Apple likely uses different iCloud Private Relay servers for different regions - if you’re running the iOS or macOS public betas, and you’re experiencing slow network performance, chances are very good that you’ll see a huge performance boost by turning off iCloud Private Relay.

Since iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey all support iCloud Private Relay - and it’s turned on by default - you may encounter days when Safari just seems to be taking forever to load a web page, or large file downloads appear to be running abysmally slow. If these servers aren’t up to the task, you’ll end up with a bottleneck that will slow down all of your web browsing. The problem, in this case, is that when iCloud Private Relay is turned on, it routes all of your surfing traffic through not only one, but two additional proxy servers. Most importantly, this creates a situation where the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS public betas can be even more unstable from day to day, and this is most apparent with Apple’s new iCloud Private Relay feature.

As features that rely on Apple’s iCloud servers, these naturally bring their own challenges as the company continues to tweak things for the final release of iOS. This is complicated even further by the fact that this time around, Apple is also integrated several new iCloud+ services into iOS 15 and its counterparts. That said, however, it’s still a beta, so it’s not going to be without a few bumps in the road.

There are a lot of fun and exciting new things in the iOS 15 public beta, and it’s remarkably stable for a beta, too.

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