Troubleshooting iPhone and iPad will not connect to a SSL forcing the use of Google search?

[Kubla]

I just noticed something on both Ipads and Iphone we have where I had the default search engines for Safari and Brave were either DuckDuckGo or Startpage and are now defaulted to Google.

When I tried to change it back neither of those search engines will work they can connect to a SSL (secure socket layer) I read online to fix it you turn airplane mode on then off, power off the device, power it back on and reset network settings.

I did that and it fixed it but only for a few minutes then the search engines can't connect to a SSL again almost as if Apple is forcing Google usage.

If you have an iPhone or iPad you might want to check yours as well.

 

[Ink]

What's the affected iOS version?

Are you able to check with iOS 14?

 

[Kubla]

13.6.1 have not updated to 14 on any of my devices will update and see.

 

[Ink]

Any reason for skipping iOS 13.7?

Do you a VPN?

 

[Kubla]

Did not upgrate to 13.7 was uneasy with that Covid tracker thing I read about but did update one of my iPads to 14 this morning, still got the SSL error, so reset network settings again and no more error so far.

 

[Ink]

Did not upgrate to 13.7 was uneasy with that Covid tracker thing I read about

It's an Opt-in system, aka OFF by default.