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Preventing iPad from talking to Apple?

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aoufffa

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I know I'm wearing a tin-foil hat here, but I was wondering if there's any fix out there.

iPad is awesome except two things :

1 - It always ping apple.com to check internet connectivity. I don't really care if I'm behind a captive portal or not, but I just don't want it to ping apple every time it goes online.

2 - Once it's online, it always maintain a connection to *.push.apple.com even if everything is signed out, push notification & find my iPad feature disabled.

Now I just have to put it under airplane mode when not in use. It's kind of a hassle.

Is there any way to fix these "features" out there? I wouldn't mind jailbreaking it if that's what needed. I just don't want it to talk to the mothership unless absolutely necessary.
 
aoufffa said:
I know I'm wearing a tin-foil hat here, but I was wondering if there's any fix out there.

iPad is awesome except two things :

1 - It always ping apple.com to check internet connectivity. I don't really care if I'm behind a captive portal or not, but I just don't want it to ping apple every time it goes online.

2 - Once it's online, it always maintain a connection to *.push.apple.com even if everything is signed out, push notification & find my iPad feature disabled.

Now I just have to put it under airplane mode when not in use. It's kind of a hassle.

Is there any way to fix these "features" out there? I wouldn't mind jailbreaking it if that's what needed. I just don't want it to talk to the mothership unless absolutely necessary.
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what are you trying to hide ?!
 
Honestly, just deal with it. You have a cell phone correct? Well, that is connected to the carrier whenever possible, even though you aren't using it, and it sharing where you are all the time it's connected.

And, what do you think apple is going to do with the information that aoufffa's iPad can connect to the internet?
 
blueroom said:
Shut off the WiFi & Bluetooth.
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That's what I have been doing. Using Airplane mode as a toggle.

My routers now block connection to Cupertino at port 5223. That blocks push notification service. However, it still ping apple.com to verify internet connectivity every time wifi session is started.

I'm not comparing apples to apples here (no pun intended), but Windows 7 also uses the same mechanism to verify internet connectivity. As much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft got it right by allowing this mechanism to be disabled or modified to ping private server. I haven't used OS X for several years now, so I can't say whether it has this feature and if it's possible to adjust it in the same manner.
 
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Comeagain? said:
Honestly, just deal with it. You have a cell phone correct? Well, that is connected to the carrier whenever possible, even though you aren't using it, and it sharing where you are all the time it's connected.

And, what do you think apple is going to do with the information that aoufffa's iPad can connect to the internet?
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Cell phones are designed to be tethered to the network 24/7. iPad 24/7 connectivity to Cupertino is for MobileMe and push notifications. However, with said feature turned off why would it still need to be tethered to the mothership constantly?

You and I may see things differently. If you want to accept the fact that there's always a ghost connection to Cupertino, good for you, I won't argue with that.

My question is whether there's a way to completely disable this "feature".
 
aoufffa said:
That's what I have been doing. Using Airplane mode as a toggle.

My routers now block connection to Cupertino at port 5223. That blocks push notification service. However, it still ping apple.com to verify internet connectivity every time wifi session is started.

I'm not comparing apples to apples here (no pun intended), but Windows 7 also uses the same mechanism to verify internet connectivity. As much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft got it right by allowing this mechanism to be disabled or modified to ping private server. I haven't used OS X for several years now, so I can't say whether it has this feature and if it's possible to adjust it in the same manner.
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Can you further explain this? Would like to do it as well.
 
ronaldmcdonald said:
Can you further explain this? Would like to do it as well.
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Depending on make/model of your router, you should be able to configure it to block outgoing connection to any server on port 5223. Check the manual.

If you regularly use push notification, mobile me, etc, I believe that those services won't work after you do that. From my tests, App store works fine.

ROGERWILCO357 said:
it's there for A reason of National Security I cannot disclose..
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well played, sir. well played. :D
 
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