OpenVPN Support Forum

The last version for OpenVPN for iOS was released in 15 September 2014. In this time iOS has been upgraded to iOS 9.4.1 while the OpenVPN app was made for iOS 8.0. This has caused frequent crashing and timeouts. If you are running iOS 8.4 or 9 and over if you connect it even using an always on profile it will timeout randomly ranging from every few minutes to an hour which can easily cause a leak if you are loading something, not to mention the frustration of having to constantly reconnect to the point where it has become unusable. So far there have been 8 bad reviews on the app store but the app still has 4 stars so it might be a bit hard to see that people have been having problems with the app. The app still actually uses the interface from iOS 6. Some people are actually having problems making the VPN work at all without involving editing config files etc. I myself have to use two jailbreak tweaks to make it usable on iOS 8.4 but even then it's very unreliable and leaks my IP all the time and eats my battery. The average user won't bother with these workarounds.

I had a look at the new PrivateTunnel OpenVPN app in the app store and it's disappointing that OpenVPN technologies has made an up to date app for a specific VPN provider and is constantly updating the Android version but it looks like it is ignoring a large user base on iOS. My question is: is OpenVPN Technologies or whoever makes the app thinking about update OpenVPN Connect (iOS) (not the PrivateTunnel version) soon?

Yea i completely agree, (iOS is currently on 9.2.1 not 9.4.1)personally i don't have as many problems but there are definitely some issues, for me every time I lose cellular connection the app disconnects itself and has to be manually turned on, the app looks super outdated and lacks a lot of features like URL schemes. I know its not easy, but not updating an app for almost 17 months? Not very encouraging for new/existing users. Does anyone have at lest an ETA for 1.06?

Agreed needs an update ASAP!

Getting "Session invalidated: KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT" on iOS after server upgrades

Agree! +1000
Any news? ETA?

Do any of you have the OpenVPN iOS client actually working on iOS 9.2 ??? Can you access. Devices on you target network through the OpenVPN tunnel ? If so please respond- Been struggling for weeks and would really love to understand how you got it working !!

Current OSX proXPN app version 4.3.5.2 no longer stores .ovpn files in the [proXPN Location]/proXPN.app/Contents/Resources/ directory. The new method is the .ovpn files are generated per use and stored in the /tmp directory. Although I've been able to get that over to OpenVPN Connect and start a session, my other apps don't seem to utilize the tunnel! PIA really.