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a VPN for your iPhone let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about Virtual Private Networks kind of a
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dull topic but here's the thing you have
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your handy iOS device or maybe Android
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or something and I bet when you connect
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to an open Wi-Fi network like at a
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coffee shop or a public library or even
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at school you don't really think about
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security you should turns out that any
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Wi-Fi network that you can connect to
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and someone else can means they can
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actually have access potentially to your
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data what you're sending what you're
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receiving images passwords all that
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stuff really not good so enter Virtual
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Private Networks now we've talked about
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VPNs on computers a fair bit but you
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might not realize you can also run a VPN
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on your smartphone so I thought it'd be
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useful for me to step you through how to
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install and use Express VPN happens to
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be my favorite VPN right now on your
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iPhone so Zen iPhone 10 let me switch
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around and you can see what's on screen
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and we'll go through the process ready
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okay here I am I'm in Safari and I've
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logged into my account at expressvpn
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comm if you don't actually have an
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expressvpn account yet then you can go
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not directly to the site I recommend go
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because they often have discount coupons
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and certificates for you to get
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expressvpn at a discount
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so easy enough what I'm gonna do is I'm
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gonna tap on setup expressvpn and then
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it will actually take me to a page that
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both gives me the ability to download
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the app and then sign in to the app so
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let's go ahead and open it in the app
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and should just take a couple of seconds
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there's half of it and it's fully
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installed now I want to go back to
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Safari what I want to do now that the
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apps installed is just tap on tap here
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and then it actually will launch
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expressvpn and log me in how simple is
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that so a couple of little features you
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have to allow and this one you'll notice
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this is a typical iOS prompt when you're
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going to install a VPN it will double
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check that you know what you're doing I
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do so I'm gonna allow it I also have to
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enter my phone passcode so I'll do that
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and then I will accept notifications
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okay I will allow diagnostic information
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and done and now this is crazy easy to
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actually turn on the VPN and become
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totally encrypted and safe on this
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public Wi-Fi network I just tap the
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button to start it and now I'm fully
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connected and I can just go and switch
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back to any app I want or just go back
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to my home screen whatever
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and now the VPN is running if I bring
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down the control screen you can see on
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the very top there's a little tiny box
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that says VPN on it that's my clue that
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it's running so now let's say that I'm
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done with it and I want to actually turn
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it off all I have to do is go back into
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the expressvpn app tap that button
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and it's off to confirm I will go back
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to the control screen and VPN is no
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longer there that's it pretty
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straightforward so as you can see it's
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really easy to actually work with a VPN
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on your iPhone the Android experience is
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very much the same there's a little bit
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of putzing around to try to get it all
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to install correctly but once it's done
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it's super easy to work with and I
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really recommend you with your new iOS
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device or even when you've had a long
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time whether it's an iPad or an iPhone
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is get a VPN and use it when you're on a
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big busy public Wi-Fi network you will
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thank me later when other people find
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that they have their credit card data
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stolen or password stolen or
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confidential data stolen and you don't
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that's a good thing so this is Dave
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Taylor I hope this was helpful and I'll
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catch you in my next video
