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Android exposes a soft VPN API that firewall apps can use to block network traffic for certain apps in certain scenarios (say, no Google Play updates when on mobile data) with apps like Netguard [1].
Does iOS not expose such functionality? Surely there's some kind of VPN API?
[1]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
> Perhaps more importantly, I see no mention of any facility for network monitoring.
They intend to build a comprehensive netmon: https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/349
Right now, they've got an ebpf-based firewall: https://calyxos.org/docs/tech/datura-details/
I recommend session now.
https://getsession.org/
It doesn't require creating an account and giving up your phone number.
They use the same signal protocol with better trade off in terms of security and privacy.