iMessgae on Mac not working with PIA

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Just updated my Mac to Sequoia 15.0 and never had issues using imessage with the VPN on but now imessage only works with it off. I even reinstalled PIA and nothing. Any suggestions?

2

Same here. The problem is the killswitch. Shut it off for now and it should start working.

3

I had same issue, except once I disconnected it, I couldn’t reconnect it. Tried reinstalling, nothing. Tried deleting and now I can’t reinstall at all as the installer won’t open.

4

Adding my name to the list of those who cannot send iMessages on Sequoia (and happen to use PIA VPN)

5

Same thing is going on with my machine. I installed Sequoia and I use PIA VPN and iMessage stopped working. I was on a tech-support call with Apple and I turned the VPN off and my messages started going through. I don’t really need the VPN while I’m at home but I do use it when I travel. This is on a 2022 MacBook Air M2.

6

Also a quick sidenote the mail app no longer works since the update too

7

Same for me - will try killswitch. Have spoke to PIA tech support and they are aware FWIW

8

Updating to 3.6.1 fixed the iMessage issue for me

9

Can you try running this:

piactl -u applysettings '{"splitTunnelRules": [ { "linkTarget": "", "mode": "exclude", "path": "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/apsd" } ] }'

And then you’ll have to re-add whatever you had in your split tunnel back in. This (above) adds apsd to the bypass list, which may fix the issue with iMessage without requring the Killswitch to be disabled (which is a bad idea).

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I found another work-around here, i would like someone to verify. Can you go to split tunnel and choose “Add ip address”, then enter “17/8” (apple subnet) - let me know if this fixes it for you. You may have to restart the “Messages” app.

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Well, it looks like they haven’t corrected this issue yet. This is what you get when you’re dealing with NO LIVE tech support to one of THE MOST POPULAR VPN services out there. Trying to get any help from their lame overseas “tech support” is going to be a waste of time with useless suggestions to “fix” the issue. So only a small fraction of people replying here are able to still use PIA (with whatever current settings they’re using that work for them), but for MOST of us, we have to wait for a fixed update. Whenever that happens…