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MacOS – The ‘VPN Service’ payload could not be installed

Hi! When trying to install the DNS configuration, I get an error: 

The ‘VPN Service’ payload could not be installed. The VPN service could not be created.

The error persists whether or not I enable the "trust root certificate" option when downloading. I am on MacOS Tahoe. Some help would be greatly appreciated!

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    • Lukas_Slazak
    • 2 wk ago
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    Hello; did you generate management profile for MacOS ? that sounds like you would be trying to install profile from iOS

      • ruby86spilt
      • 2 days ago
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       I am also having this issue. NextDNS's instructions are the same for iOS and macOS and are generated from apple.nextdns.io.

    • ruby86spilt
    • 2 days ago
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    I am also having this issue on macOS Tahoe 26.1.

    • ruby86spilt
    • 2 days ago
    • Reported - view

    I was able to install the profile on my Mac still running 26.0, but it fails on 26.1.

    • Francesco.9
    • yesterday
    • Reported - view

    Broken for me as well on 26.1 - you also can't remove previously installed profiles. 

    Had a call with an "Apple Support Specialist" today and after 30 minutes of troubleshooting couldn't find the culprit, said he would investigate and call me back tomorrow. 

     

    Glad to know it's an actual bug.. let's see how long Apple will take to fix or if there are workarounds to be found. 

      • ruby86spilt
      • 19 hrs ago
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       It seems to be a bug in 26.1. All profile installs fail, regardless of the source.

      • Francesco.9
      • 19 hrs ago
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       I believe the ControlD guys just fixed it, try to download a fresh profile from their website, free DNS as well.

    • Matthew_Franzel
    • yesterday
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    Also having this issue on 26.1!!

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