Private Relay on macOS 15 Sequoia

I'm on macOS 15 Sequoia, M1 iMac. On macOS 14, prior to upgrade, everything was working fine with Private relay enabled.

Now, when I activate the nextDNS app:

the status on my.nextdns.io is: "This device is using NextDNS with iCloud Private Relay"
ads are blocked

However after about 90 seconds:

ads start appearing
my.nextdns.io status now says: "This device is not using NextDNS. This device is currently using ”Cloudflare” as DNS resolver."
If I click "view>"reload and show ip address" it says "All good! This device is using NextDNS with this profile." However ads are not being blocked!

The same behaviour happens when using a Configuration Profile instead of app.

(iOS 18, on the other hand, seems to work fine).

- Andrew_Vines
- 3 wk ago
- Reported - view
said:
Addition: I think that after the update from 15.0 to 15.0.1 you guys need to disable NextDNS once in the DNS settings of MacOS and enable it again. At least that was the simple trick for me.

This worked for me. Thanks.

I think we can say that this bug is now fixed.
- Andrew_Vines
  
  3 wk ago
  
  Reported - view
  And actually, it seems that the fix was only temporary for me... it worked for a while and then the ads came back.
  
  So, not fixed yet.
- Kim_R
- 2 wk ago
- Reported - view
macOS 15.1RC also exhibits the same behavior. Can be triggered by opening Arc browser. Also, after some inactivity, it also drops.
- Human_Person
- 6 hrs ago
- Reported - view
In case folks were wondering, 15.1 final release is still busted.

Content aside