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I bought it right away (I could've built it myself, but didn't feel like opening Xcode). It doesn't work unfortunately (I'm in Iran).

I’ll make it a priority to allow using bridges. Unfortunately, since Iran is known to block pretty much all Tor access (even regular, unlisted bridges), it may still not work.

Getting around this entirely would require obfsproxy[1] which wouldn’t work on iOS the way I have it set up due to the inability to spawn sub processes. (Tor client, when configured to use obfsproxy bridges, has to spawn an obfsproxy process to handle the obfusctaed traffic.)

[1]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

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