NetShade DNS

Encryption for 2024

Encrypted DNS is a smart way to secure your online privacy without the sledgehammer approach of a VPN. It patches the Internet’s most glaring privacy leak: DNS. A relic from the earliest days of the Internet, DNS has been exposing your online activity for years.

Thanks to DNS over TLS, you can finally patch the Internet’s last big security hole. Better late than never.

One tap, always on

Use encrypted DNS all the time, use a VPN when you need one.

Encrypted DNS lives inside iOS’s networking stack. Once enabled, it stays on. All your DNS queries get encrypted through our secure servers by the OS itself. No DNS leakage, ever. Unlike a VPN, encypted DNS is “set it and forget it.”

These days everything’s encrypted… except DNS

Back in the days of unencrypted websites, messengers and email connections, VPNs were essential for preventing online eavesdropping. In 2024 almost every website you visit uses HTTPS. That means a VPN is usually adding a second redundant layer of encryption, incurring overhead and slowdowns.

Encrypted DNS is more targeted than a VPN, encrypting only the tiny DNS queries that your device constantly sends out.

The first on the iPhone

When Apple announced encrypted DNS support at WWDC 2020, we knew we had to jump on it. Thanks to our extensive battle-tested infrastructure of VPN and proxy servers, we were able to release the platform’s first encrypted DNS solution just days after the public launch of iOS 14.