Private Relay issues in Sequoia

[thatguywill]

Since installing Sequoia, I’m met with issues in Safari that it can’t connect to Private relay on a daily basis.
I’m doing the ‘turn off until tomorrow’ every day now just to be able to use Safari which is becoming annoying.
Mac Pro 2019.

Anyone else experiencing issues?

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Not at all.

Any VPN? Tested on different networks?

 

[thatguywill]

Not at all.

Any VPN? Tested on different networks?

No VPN and it’s Ethernet connection

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Ethernet or not, try a different network. Could be something your router or ISP is affecting.

 

[mac_hack_attack]

I'm going to take a guess and say these are general network issues. When there is a network blip, Private Relay tends to mark itself as down for some timeout, so everything appears to work but Private Relay is still in "timeout"

I am unsure if Apple defaulted even wired Ethernet into the new rotating MAC address system, but I would check, and if so, I would turn it off as it can cause network blips.

 

[iMatt.]

Discovered when trying to turn it on my Mac last night that I’m having issues also with the “Private Relay Unavailable” message that says some system settings or extensions are incompatible.

The only thing I can think of is NordVPN but I get the same message even if it’s turned off and disabled.

 

[exoriare]

Safari can’t connect to Private relay....

Yes, I've had similar issues. I've found a partial workaround by turning off Private Relay, quitting Safari, turning on Private Relay again and then restarting Safari. But the problem sometimes comes back and it's then a rinse-repeat cycle till it somehow conects. This is with no VPN, on both Ethernet and Wifi. Don't think it's a network problem.


Update: the solution for me was that I had a network filter I had forgotten about operating in the background: System Preferences/Network/VPN & Filters. Never had any problem before Sequoia but disabling it seems to have fixed the problem.