Hotspot Shield VPN App For iPhone, iPad And iPod touch Now Available For Download

[WIDOW]

Anchor Free’s Hotspot Shield has been around for quite some time on the desktop, with the app offering a way to create a secure Virtual Private Network, or VPN from your machine to another. Doing such a thing offers a couple of advantages, but the main one is security.



What the VPN in affect does, is turn any HTTP session into a secure one, or HTTPS. This is an excellent thing if you’re the kind of person that often visits places where public WiFi is available – you don’t want to be hitting your bank’s website from an unsecured WiFi network, just in case those nasty bad guys are listening in on your packets.

That said, it doesn’t take a genius to work out why bringing Hotspot Shield to iOS is a good idea. All those times you’re on your carrier’s 3G network, or just borrowing the free WiFi from your local McDonalds or Starbucks, and you’ve signed into a website that isn’t as secure as it could be? There’s a chance those login details were stolen, though, it is admittedly a slim one.

Hotspot Shield helps to protect you in that regard, thanks to that VPN we were just talking about.


There is also one added bonus – if you happen to be in a country where internet traffic is either blocked, or even monitored, then Hotspot Shield will get around such nastiness. China, we’re looking at you!

The iOS release even offers a data plan-busting data compression feature which will, obviously enough, compress images and the like with the aim of reducing the amount of data you receive. Perfect if you’re roaming, for example!

The Hotspot Shield app itself is absolutely free, but if you want to use it beyond the initial 7 day free trial, then you’ll need to pay a fee, with bundles for a month or year available via the app.

If you’re the kind of person that will take advantage of Hotspot Shield, then the chances are; you already know it inside out, and if that’s the case, the iOS app will be a real treat for you.

We have experienced a couple of teething troubles with the VPN connection today, though we’re willing to give Anchor Free the benefit of the doubt just now – we’re assuming they are seeing more server load than usual, and will hope to get service back to its usual solid standards sooner rather than later.

Download Hotspot Shield for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch [iTunes link]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hotspot-shield-vpn/id443369807

its free

[aficionado]

free for the first 7 days only

[kanjo]

this explains why they took down the original site they had set up for iphone VPN service a while ago.
I wonder if this means that those of us who still have those settings on our iDevice's will lose that feature once this app gets out there a little more. seems more likely then not.
why keep giving it out for free as a setting when you can charge for it as a service in app form?
but if it is in the appstore and is available to all countries would it still enable using pandora outside with USA as an app the same way it does when you input the VPN details in the settings.app ?

[Keep123]

download

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hotsp...pn/id443369807

[knightflt]

Here’s how to setup your Hotspot Shield VPN on your iPhone (Free):

1. Turn off WiFi. Then find the VPN settings in
Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration:

Enter the following details:

Select the IPSec tab/pane
Description: HotspotShield
Server: 68.68.107.101
Account: n5tfrq
Password: n5tfrq
Use Certificate: OFF
Group Name: hss
Secret: hss

2. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.

3. To activate Hotspot Shield on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on.

Settings –> VPN –> ON

If you entered your info correctly, your status will change to “Connected” and you’ll see a VPN icon appear at the top iPhone tray. If you can’t connect, respring your phone, and and try again.

Hotspot Shield worked over both 3G and WiFi.


Now lets say you are from Canada and you are a Netflix Canada subscriber double tap your home button stop netflix from running in the background than activate hotsot shield go back and start Netflix using your Canadian username and password and whalla your on American Netflix with access to a lot more movies
enjoy

[Darijan]

This is awesome! super tool

[9450392956]

This just keeps on opening and then returning back to homescreen in ios 5.0.1

[kingmoe738]

I use this to bypass my school blocking system

[kli821]

Is there anyway to bypass 7 day usage? Thanks

[stevetgl]

Nice

[73ullet]

Originally Posted by kli821

Is there anyway to bypass 7 day usage? Thanks

See:

Originally Posted by knightflt

Here’s how to setup your Hotspot Shield VPN on your iPhone (Free):

1. Turn off WiFi. Then find the VPN settings in
Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration:

Enter the following details:

Select the IPSec tab/pane
Description: HotspotShield
Server: 68.68.107.101
Account: n5tfrq
Password: n5tfrq
Use Certificate: OFF
Group Name: hss
Secret: hss

2. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.

3. To activate Hotspot Shield on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on.

Settings –> VPN –> ON

If you entered your info correctly, your status will change to “Connected” and you’ll see a VPN icon appear at the top iPhone tray. If you can’t connect, respring your phone, and and try again.

Hotspot Shield worked over both 3G and WiFi.


Now lets say you are from Canada and you are a Netflix Canada subscriber double tap your home button stop netflix from running in the background than activate hotsot shield go back and start Netflix using your Canadian username and password and whalla your on American Netflix with access to a lot more movies
enjoy

[PSXman_uk]

Anyone got any us tv apps i can try in the uk using the vpn ..

Does anyone know if it will let you use them outside of the us ?

[nevS]

i have an app that will only work in switzerland (TV Screen). does hotspot shied have servers in switzerland?

[drakchris]

Originally Posted by knightflt

Here’s how to setup your Hotspot Shield VPN on your iPhone (Free):

1. Turn off WiFi. Then find the VPN settings in
Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration:

Enter the following details:

Select the IPSec tab/pane
Description: HotspotShield
Server: 68.68.107.101
Account: n5tfrq
Password: n5tfrq
Use Certificate: OFF
Group Name: hss
Secret: hss

2. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.

3. To activate Hotspot Shield on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on.

Settings –> VPN –> ON

If you entered your info correctly, your status will change to “Connected” and you’ll see a VPN icon appear at the top iPhone tray. If you can’t connect, respring your phone, and and try again.

Hotspot Shield worked over both 3G and WiFi.


Now lets say you are from Canada and you are a Netflix Canada subscriber double tap your home button stop netflix from running in the background than activate hotsot shield go back and start Netflix using your Canadian username and password and whalla your on American Netflix with access to a lot more movies
enjoy

this is sweet works well

[kanjo]

Originally Posted by knightflt

Here’s how to setup your Hotspot Shield VPN on your iPhone (Free):

1. Turn off WiFi. Then find the VPN settings in
Settings -> General -> Network -> VPN -> Add VPN Configuration:

Enter the following details:

Select the IPSec tab/pane
Description: HotspotShield
Server: 68.68.107.101
Account: n5tfrq
Password: n5tfrq
Use Certificate: OFF
Group Name: hss
Secret: hss

2. Save the settings and hit the “HOME” button to quit. Make sure to turn Wi-Fi back “ON”.

3. To activate Hotspot Shield on your iPhone, the VPN setting needs to be turned on.

Settings –> VPN –> ON

If you entered your info correctly, your status will change to “Connected” and you’ll see a VPN icon appear at the top iPhone tray. If you can’t connect, respring your phone, and and try again.

Hotspot Shield worked over both 3G and WiFi.


Now lets say you are from Canada and you are a Netflix Canada subscriber double tap your home button stop netflix from running in the background than activate hotsot shield go back and start Netflix using your Canadian username and password and whalla your on American Netflix with access to a lot more movies
enjoy

^ ^ this does work, i just bit the bullet and paid the $10 for a years sub to the HSS app. its heaps better than the free one post here (which i used to use before it got nerffed when the app started getting made) i found that it slowed down my connection way too much for it to be worth it. with the paid sub speed is almost unaffected. but the free service works fine if you dont wanna shovel out the money for a sub. i found it was worth it because im in Australia and i use pandora radio daily so paying $10 for unlimited music streams in HQ at home on wifi and on the road on 3G was nothing. but some people have different circumstances or just prefer not to pay for stuff (like i used to) free shit is awesome. if the server side check for the in app purchase gets loop holed or hacked ill jump on it too haha.

good app though once the certs are installed you pretty much never need to open it ever again.

[Mohammed97]

Wish iAP cracker or IAPFree to work

[cmeacham98]

Originally Posted by Mohammed97

Wish iAP cracker or IAPFree to work

Does it work?

[zoom]

Nope neither IAPfree nor IAPCracker work with HSS VPN. Would be great if it did but it doesn't.

[papichulo]

Hi Im in Canada, when I turn on VPN on my Iphone a message pops "VPN connection The VPN server did not respond" it's a great app but does still work thanks...

[nevS]

its not working anymore. do u guys have another one?