How do I stop Private Relay notifications, they keep telling me to turn it on.

How do I stop Private Relay notifications, they keep telling me to turn it on.

it keeps notifying me that private relay is now included with my iCloud+ subscription and to turn it on. But I don’t want to so how can I stop the notifications?

iPhone 14 Plus

Posted on May 4, 2023 04:06 AM

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Posted on May 6, 2023 03:37 PM

Hey there Lightingguy561,


We appreciate you reaching out on Apple Support Communities! It appears that you're receiving notifications regarding enabling iCloud Private Relay. There is not a way to disable these notifications, so we'd recommend providing feedback to ensure your voice is heard regarding this matter. You can do so using: Feedback - iCloud - Apple


Have a lovely day!

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May 6, 2023 03:37 PM in response to Lightingguy561

Hey there Lightingguy561,


We appreciate you reaching out on Apple Support Communities! It appears that you're receiving notifications regarding enabling iCloud Private Relay. There is not a way to disable these notifications, so we'd recommend providing feedback to ensure your voice is heard regarding this matter. You can do so using: Feedback - iCloud - Apple


Have a lovely day!

Jun 30, 2023 06:24 AM in response to ManJor

The link you posted doesn't provide an option in "Feedback Type" to target Private Relay or notifications or general iCloud. Despite that, why does anyone here have to jump through hoops? This is an obvious bug, it's annoying, there is no workaround and people here spend their time to report it.


With all due respect but this feels like poor community management.

Jul 23, 2023 02:33 PM in response to Lightingguy561

I have it turned on and I get momentary notifications (that aren’t that momentary) saying private relay is off the another one saying it is on. It is so freakin annoying when you are in a call or on directions etc. it covers up info that I need in the task at hand and it is quicker to manually swipe it up to get rid of it. DO SOMETHING APPLE! Please- it’s ridiculous.

Aug 30, 2023 04:12 AM in response to purplefishz

In the meantime, the notifications have disappeared again. After two days, the spook was over just as suddenly as it appeared. But since there are apparently still people with this issue, I assume that the problem still exists and demands a solution. It's an incredibly annoying bug, as the messages are displayed with the highest priority (even in non-disturb mode) and override everything else.

I don't want to use privacy relay at all, and certainly don't want to be regularly alerted that this feature exists. I feel this is quite patronizing to users. I use a VPN and take care of protecting my identity myself. My device doesn't need to remind me.

Nov 17, 2023 01:05 AM in response to Lightingguy561

Yeah, so Apple doesn’t seem to care about this problems and several loyal customers’ issues beyond this specific topic. For a fact, every time a new iPhone is about to be released, just about every iPhone owner I know has performance issues with their phone. The device is slow, won’t load and/or connect to its network. Yet, the Android platform seems to prevail, once over. The ploy to keep us spending $1k on an Apple device every 2-3 yrs is about to get exposed.

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