What’s VPN?

[AlexaAmbidextra]

I’ve just noticed, at the top right hand corner of my I-pad screen, where the battery usage and broadband signal is, there’s a box appeared with VPN in it. Any ideas what this could be. I think it’s only just appeared.

Virtual Private Network?

I usually have to use an app on my iPhone if I want to create a VPN.. are you sure nobody has downloaded it on your iPhone?

That’s what I found when I googled. But what does that mean and why should it just have appeared?

It’s on my I-pad and nobody has had access to it. Why would I need a virtual private network?

A VPN is a virtual private network, a means of accessing the internet designed to disguise your location or to replicate another specific location.

Most likely someone else using your iPad has set one up for you.