Yeah if you read their post that Fria linked above, they say so near the bottom
I’d like to add that we came up with our own implementation of PIR and it is currently being reviewed by Apple (for over a month, in fact). I hope very much that it will successfully pass the review sooner rather than later and we’ll be able to add this functionality to AdGuard products.
The developer of wipr was complaining that apple was taking months to review filtr, too
That blog post was from December 2025. That’s a hell of a wait! Is this the assumption that AdGuard has acknowledged Apple is the reason behind the delay? Why can’t AdGuard just release a DMG to get around Apple’s review process?
This whole feature requires using Apple’s infrastructure, so they can’t get around the review
Oh, I see. Even apps released outside of the App Store will need Apple to review them?
To be honest I’m not entirely sure what the usage restrictions are for URL filtering. E.g., whether you need to serve the app through app store to use it. However, the review process involves Apple auditing your server configuration, so even if they let you distribute your implementation outside the app store, you would need their approval (since ohttp in this case uses an Apple relay, I don’t think there is any way around this)
You need to buy Filtr after buying Wipr, Wipr itself is just in Safari. But yes if you enable Filtr, you’ll get ad blocking in third party apps systemwide.
The DNS filter you’re using is blocking the domains Apple uses for Private Relay, OHTTP, etc. They’re for hiding your IP address, you should probably figure out how to allow those or change what DNS you’re using. I assume it’s just blocking those domains because they’re Apple domains and they don’t really consider what the purpose is of the domains they’re blocking.
You don’t need the DNS blocker on your iPhone with this enabled, this is going to be more effective and more private.
One of those DNS providers is blocking it, most likely the top one. You might go through and see if you really need all of those and maybe remove a few. You could also set the DNS settings on your iPhone to be different than the default on your network.
