IPVanish VPN Features

Online dangers such as annoying ads and malicious websites are a constant challenge. To thwart these threats and boost your browsing experience, IPVanish offers Threat Protection for iOS, Android mobile, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple Vision Pro devices. This innovative feature employs custom DNS and safelist filters to block intrusive ads, trackers, and dangerous websites. By shielding you from these common online hazards, Threat Protection secures your data and helps ensure your digital environment is free from unwanted interruptions.

A VPN Kill Switch is a critical security failsafe built to better ensure your VPN privacy. If your VPN connection unexpectedly drops, the VPN Kill Switch activates, instantly suspending all internet traffic to and from your device. This immediate action ensures that your data remains protected, preventing any exposure or vulnerability that could occur during lapses in your VPN connection. It’s an essential tool for maintaining continuous security, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Gain peace of mind knowing that your online activities remain confidential even in the face of connection leaks and network disruptions.

While recognizing some systems’ limitations with simultaneous VPN tunneling and network kill switches, IPVanish has an innovative answer to the challenge. Our development team crafted a unique solution: the IPVanish TV Kill Switch App. This dynamic companion app to IPVanish VPN significantly enhances the protective capabilities of our primary VPN service. Specifically designed for environments where traditional VPN features face constraints, this app helps ensure that your privacy is never compromised, providing a failsafe for any network disruption on your Fire TV or Android TV devices.

Our iOS On Demand feature allows you to activate IPVanish VPN whenever you connect to the internet, but it does more than that, too. On Demand allows you to establish rules for how your VPN automatically operates. You can pre-select which networks you recognize as safe, choose whether to automatically trust or secure cellular networks, and even add specific web domains to initiate a VPN connection automatically. This flexibility allows iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro owners to seamlessly integrate IPVanish VPN into their daily internet use and achieve maximum privacy protection in the process.

Split tunneling revolutionizes your privacy by enabling selective application routing for a customized online setup. This VPN feature allows you to choose which apps use the VPN for enhanced security and which connect directly to the internet for better performance. It’s ideal for managing bandwidth, accessing geo-restricted content while maintaining local network connectivity, and balancing security with efficiency. By customizing your connection, split tunneling meets diverse digital needs, from securely streaming media to maintaining the fastest access to local services.

Split tunneling by domain transforms your privacy experience by providing selective website routing options in your personal VPN setup. This functionality empowers you to designate specific websites that can function independently of the VPN, optimizing their performance while ensuring the security of the rest of your network traffic. Available for our Windows, macOS, iOS, and visionOS VPN apps, this feature is beneficial for bandwidth management, preserving access to local connections, and striking a balance between security and efficiency.

Enhance your streaming experience with our VPN Shortcuts feature, available on Android TV and Fire TV apps. Shortcuts allow you to pair a VPN server location with a specific app so you can launch them with a single click from the Home screen. Set up to three shortcuts for quick access to streamline your navigation and enjoy seamless connectivity.

Double Hop VPN is an advanced privacy feature designed to fortify your online security by routing your traffic through not one but two VPN servers in different locations. Also known as “multi-hop VPN” or “double VPN,” this dual-layer protection makes it much harder for ISPs, hackers, or other third parties to trace your online activity or uncover your IP address. With IPVanish, you can customize your Double Hop VPN path by choosing from over 145 global server locations, adding an extra layer of security to your connection for safer, more private browsing wherever you are. 

Get a fast VPN connection without the guesswork. Our Default Location feature automatically selects the best available VPN server based on your proximity, network conditions, and server load. Whether you’re browsing, streaming, or gaming, this ensures you always connect to the best VPN server for top performance. Just tap to Default Location to connect, and let IPVanish handle the rest.

RAM-only servers enhance your privacy by running entirely on volatile memory rather than traditional hard drives. Because no data is ever written to disk, even anonymous session information is automatically wiped whenever a server is powered off or rebooted. This design eliminates any possible risk of storage, ensuring that third parties cannot recover your activity. With IPVanish, our network combines RAM-only and HDD servers worldwide, providing stronger privacy protections, faster updates, and reliable performance, regardless of your connection location.