control laws and while apple's private relay is not technically a vpn, it acts quite similarly, so when users browse the internet using safari, apple or the user's network provider cannot see the data. what is significant is that china is one of the iphone maker �*s split was most important markets, and accounts for about 15% of its revenue and china's so—called great firewall effectively allows authorities to block websites from being accessed within china including google and facebook as well. the vpns are used to get around china's strict internet controls, and it is not the first time this has actually happened. in 2017 apple removed a number of its vpn services from the app store to comply with local regulations. is notjust china that has done this, this feature is blocked in a number of other countries as well, including belarus, colombia, egypt, kazakhstan, saudi arabia, south africa, even the