Surfshark gives its iPhone VPN app a cleaner look, and the browser extension gets one too
VPN VPN Services Surfshark gives its iPhone VPN app a cleaner look, and the browser extension gets one too News By Monica J. White Published 21 September 2026 The locations tab is now split into two views, so your most-used servers are always a tap away When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. The provider has rolled out a redesign of its iOS locations tab, with the goal of speeding up server selection.If you use Surfshark (one of the best VPN services out there) every day, small friction points in the user interface add up.
- ▪VPN VPN Services Surfshark gives its iPhone VPN app a cleaner look, and the browser extension gets one too News By Monica J.
- ▪White Published 21 September 2026 The locations tab is now split into two views, so your most-used servers are always a tap away When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
- ▪The provider has rolled out a redesign of its iOS locations tab, with the goal of speeding up server selection.If you use Surfshark (one of the best VPN services out there) every day, small friction points in the user interface add up.
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| Original publisher | TechRadar |
| Canonical URL | https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/surfshark-gives-its-iphone-vpn-app-a-cleaner-look-and-the-browser-extension-gets-one-too |
| Publication time | Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:46:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-21T08:53:47.770Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-21T08:53:47.770Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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VPN VPN Services Surfshark gives its iPhone VPN app a cleaner look, and the browser extension gets one too News By Monica J. White Published 21 September 2026 The locations tab is now split into two views, so your most-used servers are always a tap away When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Surfshark) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Surfshark has split the iOS locations tab into two views The browser extension gets a visual refreshThe update is a design change rather than a new security featureIf you open the Surfshark app on your iPhone right…
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