I just installed MacOS Ventura. It has a section in Settings for VPN. It has three entries for Nord, which is still installed, and it had one for Windscribe, which wasn’t. I was able to track down the Windscribe problem, which was a single preference. However, it seems that the system doesn’t know Mullvad is running. Now I’m not too upset about this, I don’t want to go into Settings every time, but I’d just like to understand this for any future problems.
I feel ya brah, but you’re not going to get any answers here. The devs and fanboys hide behind “but why do you need this” as an excuse for laziness. It’s certainly possible to integrate with the OS VPN settings, since the official Wireguard client does, but they don’t. And from what I can tell, they don’t on Windows either. Which is fine, because it works. Little annoying if you have OCD, but it works. It’s the price of maintaining one codebase for 3 operating systems I guess
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You should hit up Mullvad with a mail or on their Github, perhaps there’s a reason that it isn’t integrated into macos or maybe nobody has requested that feature yet.
The VPN section in Ventura is entirely new, no past OS had it. In past OSes Mullvad wouldn’t add anything to the Network section even though a VPN was supported. I would wait for an update for Mullvad to add the integration.
As I said, I’m not upset about it, I’m more interested in why it isn’t showing.
The official Wireguard client definitely shows up in the Mac system settings as a traditional VPN. So it’s not the protocol. It’s just Mullvad being lazy.
Which they’re not alone in, since iVPN’s client doesn’t show in system settings either. It’s the price of maintaining one codebase for 3 operating systems.
Lazy…? Ventura hasn’t been out but a few days. The dedicated VPN section is entirely new to Ventura and Mullvad stated they would only support Ventura upon release, not beta. Wouldn’t call the lack of this integration lazy. Nobody cared back when it was in the Network tab, just like how OpenVPN doesn’t show there either, but now people care because of it’s dedicated section. But give it like two weeks to call them lazy.
What I said also applies to previous versions of macOS. Not just Ventura. Please research.
Yes, in previous versions of macOS the VPN could be in the Network tab. I clearly know that and mentioned that. No one cared then.