iPhone Suddenly unable to use Google in Safari

[rbf1138]

Have had my iPhone 17 Pro since last Friday. Suddenly today while searching in Safari I get this message,
“Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot.” It asks me to do a captcha. This still doesn’t “let me through” to google or search.

I am not on a vpn. I don’t have iCloud private relay on. I’ve tried on and off WiFi. I’ve restarted the phone. Anyone know what may be happening here?

 

[User #07242024]

Try restarting the router and/or clearing Safari website data.

 

[nickdalzell1]

I have a Vista machine at work, and it does it every 2nd search. I think it's flagging Internet Explorer as 'bad' and denying access, but in that case I use duckduckGo or Frogfind (which lets some links open in an IE-compatible format instead of a generic SSL error).

Sometimes searching 'too much' causes it, oftentimes it's the particular Wi-Fi. How old is your router? I had to upgrade mine because my iPhone kept disconnecting from it flagging it as 'unsecure wifi' (the router wasn't that old Apple! It was a reputable brand as well, LinkSys).

You'll also get that page if you use Tor or any privacy-respecting services/browsers like Brave (with Shields on) which sucks since privacy is something I highly respect and promote (so does Apple)