Someone said that when AirPlaying (streaming) content from an iPhone/iPad it sends the link to your AppleTV and hence, regardless of VPN coverage of the sending device, your AppleTV sends the local IP address to the content provider to deliver the content.
But if you’re AirPlaying content that is a local file to your AppleTV and your VPN has a killswitch to ensure everything is routed through it, it would seem that isn’t the case.
What I don’t get is:
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if you ScreenMirror, it would seem it has to be routed thru VPN since VPNs have kill switches presumably that ensure content goes through them or not at all and your screen content cannot be hosted or delivered thru any stream link, it must be directly from your device
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if you AirPlay local files, it would seem that all applies
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if you AirPlay stream youtube or some other video that allows for AirPlay functionality, why would the mechanism be different for that as opposed to AirPlaying OR ScreenMirroring local content?
I think theres some misunderstanding in your post.
A kill switch is used to disconnect from the internet / block traffic if the VPN disconnects, rather than being to do with routing of traffic.
I am unsure specifically with the killswitch, but you can split traffic for local network vs remote network. When you airplay, it’s over a local network afaik.
youtube <—> internet <—> vpn <—> local network <—> device
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Does youtube get my local IP address or is it obfuscated by my phone’s vpn im airplaying from?
