How To Setup VPN in iOS 8(including free VPN trial)

VPN is a tool to encrypt internet connection between the internet in your devices to another network, creating a secure layer to protect data on your devices while surfing over a unknown network. Why not take action to hide your device when you are enjoying a cup of coffee at Starbuck, sending tweets over Wi-Fi network? For iOS, Apple does support VPN service on either iPhone or iPad. Actually, we don't think this article is only suitable for iOS 8. For iOS 5/6/7 or other versions, the steps to setup VPN in iOS are the same. So we will show you how to setup VPN in iOS, absolutely, including free VPN trial. 

Requirements

Firstly, you must have a VPN service in your hand before starting. You can choose to subscribe one VPN service, then you will get those require infos to setup VPN in iOS. Don't worry, if you don't have VPN and know which one you should pick in Google search results, you can check out the following services:
FlyVPN
BlackVPN
VPNTraffic

If you know how to build VPN, you can build one VPN to encrypt your internet connection.

Download and Install VPN Apps for iOS

Most of VPN providers(like FlyVPN) allow users to get their VPN Apps from iTunes store to create VPN settings in iOS easily. Those Apps have been vetted by Apple.Inc. You can install those Apps with your confidence. Finally, we decide to use the FlyVPN App for iOS. It is very good. We installed many VPN connections one time. And it gets the job done. 

Manually Create VPN Connections

If your VPN services don't have VPN apps, it is not bad. You can create VPN connections in iOS manually. iOS supports the PPTP, L2TP and IPSec VPN protocols. Please confirm which one VPN protocols are your VPN services in use. 

To begin create VPN connections, please get some required VPN info like server address, VPN account, VPN password, Secret(for L2TP and IPSec VPN protocol). Let's get started to configure VPN in iOS now.
1. Tap 'Settings' > 'General' >'VPN'>'Add VPN Configuration'.
2. Select the VPN protocol used by your VPN service: PPTP, L2TP or IPSec.
3. Input the required information. Then you will get connected on VPN.

Get Free VPN Trial For iOS 8

After reading how to configure VPN in iOS 8, if you are a iPhone or VPN newbie, we think you should be interested in get connected on free VPN or trial VPN in your iPhone or iPad. We wrote a article on how to get free or free VPN trial without credit card, but we haven't listed how to use the free VPN trial on iOS. We will take FlyVPN as instance here, then we will show you how to get free VPN trial for iOS.
Step 1. You must create one account on www.flyvpn.com. 
Step 2. There are 2 ways you can use the free VPN for iOS. 
Solution 1: Visit https://m.flyvpn.com, then login with yourself account. Click one VPN server you want to use to install. Once done, you can nativigate to Settings | VPN to check the VPN connections you just configured.
Solution 2: Get FlyVPN iOS App from iTunes store. Download and install it. Then all the steps are the same as Solution 1.