The VPN profile is needed due to the nature of how our service works and in order for our firewall to operate. It is a remotely hosted firewall, meaning, the filtering of blocking trackers and unwanted connections happens in the cloud, in order to preserve battery life on the device as well as guaranteeing compatibility with future versions of iOS.

Rather than requiring a customer to manually input the configuration for the VPN profile to their device VPN settings (which can be rather tedious), accepting the installation allows Guardian to handle the work automatically so that a connection can be made right away without leaving the application.

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