Most of the time I have iCloud Private Relay enabled. Occasionally I use Mullvad VPN. Recently, I do not know exactly when, this combination stopped working.
After installation of Mullvad VPN, iCloud Private Relay is not working anymore. I get this pop-up stating
Private Relay Unavailable Your system settings are incompatible with Private Relay.
Uninstalling Mullvad VPN and rebooting brings Private Relay back to life. But I still want to use Mullvad VPN now and then. So that’s not a permanent solution.
I tried to manually disable all Mullvad components. To do this, I ranthe first part of the Mullvad uninstall script, see below. After running this script and turning private relay off and on I still get the same error.
echo "Stopping GUI process ..."
sudo pkill -x "Mullvad VPN" || echo "No GUI process found"
echo "Stopping and unloading mullvad-daemon system daemon ..."
DAEMON_PLIST_PATH="/Library/LaunchDaemons/net.mullvad.daemon.plist"
sudo launchctl unload -w "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo rm -f "$DAEMON_PLIST_PATH"
sudo dscl . -delete /groups/mullvad-exclusion || echo "Failed to remove 'mullvad-exclusion' group"
echo "Resetting firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup reset-firewall || echo "Failed to reset firewall"
sudo /Applications/Mullvad\ VPN.app/Contents/Resources/mullvad-setup remove-device || echo "Failed to remove device from account"
On further investigation I found the following issue Mullvad-daemon (without VPN active) on macOS Ventura disrupts iCloud Private Relay #4215. On the Mullvad GitHub. So it’s a common problem.
What I am know looking for is a workaround. Is it possible to temporarily disable Mullvad and enable Private Relay again, without uninstall and reboot?
This issue exists with Mullvad VPN 2022.05 on both macOS 13.1 and 13.2.1
