Using a VPN, especially with regard to sensitive material, is highly recommended IF you plan on using your iPhone or iPad, and you will be accessing that sensitive material when not at home.There is a VPN button included in the iPhone under Settings. This does nothing more than to ensure that you can connect to your IKEv1 or VPN server. You have to subscribe to a VPN server to make this work. I cannot recommend or suggest a VPN server. There are so many. The only advice I can offer is that the cheapest may not be the best. You have to review all the features of every service and decide which features are important to you. Start here: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/choose-best-vpn/ Some people want a VPN just to make their browsing experience anonymous. That is a very poor excuse to pay for VPN service—unless you are dealing with illegal or illicit information, or you really do need to be anonymous. VPN is mostly about security—protecting you and the information that you put out on the Internet. Don’t confuse private browsing with VPN. All modern browsers now have a feature to go into a Private mode, but all that does is wipe out the history of the places you have been browsing and removes all the cookies that were placed in the browser when you close the browser. That way, revisiting any site won’t know you have been there before. Reference: https://www.howtogeek.com/117776/htg-explains-how-private-browsing-works-and-why-it-doesnt-offer-complete-privacy/

John R Carter Sr