iPhone proxy settings live on each Wi-Fi network. Open Settings > Wi-Fi, tap the info button next to your network, scroll to HTTP Proxy, tap Configure Proxy, choose Manual, enter the host and HTTP port from your ProxyHive order, turn on Authentication with the username and password, and tap Save. The iPad is identical. The proxy applies on that Wi-Fi network only, never on cellular.

Steps checked against Apple's Wi-Fi device management documentation on 2026-09-30. Apple's iPhone User Guide does not describe the Configure Proxy screen, so wording can shift slightly between iOS versions.

Before you start

  1. Buy an IP and open the order in the dashboard at https://app.proxyhive.io.
  2. Copy HOST, the HTTP PORT, USERNAME and PASSWORD. Every ISP or datacenter IP is its own endpoint. The iPhone setting is an HTTP proxy, so use the HTTP port, not SOCKS5.
  3. Choose authentication. The iPhone stores a username and password, so credentials work well here. The alternative is the order's IP allowlist with your Wi-Fi network's public IP.

iPhone proxy settings, step by step

  1. Open Settings and tap Wi-Fi.
  2. Connect to the network you want to proxy, then tap the info button (the "i" in a circle) next to it.
  3. Scroll to the bottom. Under HTTP Proxy, tap Configure Proxy.
  4. Choose Manual. The other options are Off and Automatic (a proxy auto-config URL).
  5. Server: HOST from your order.
  6. Port: the HTTP port.
  7. Turn on Authentication and enter the Username and Password. Leave it off if the order uses the allowlist.
  8. Tap Save.

The setting takes effect for new connections at once. To undo it, return to Configure Proxy and choose Off.

iPad proxy settings

The path and labels are the same on iPad: Settings > Wi-Fi, the info button, Configure Proxy. Each device keeps its own setting per network, so set it on every device that needs it.

Authentication on iPhone

With Authentication on, Safari and apps that use Apple's networking stack send the saved credentials to the proxy without asking. If a page shows a proxy sign-in box anyway, the saved username or password is wrong.

With the allowlist instead, find the Wi-Fi network's public IP first (open https://api.ipify.org?format=json with the proxy off), add it to the order in the dashboard, and leave Authentication off. That trusts every device on the network, and it breaks when your home connection's public IP changes. The authentication and allowlist guide compares the two.

Cellular and per-app proxies

The Wi-Fi proxy has two hard limits:

  • Cellular is not covered. iOS has no proxy setting for mobile data. Leave the Wi-Fi network and traffic goes direct.
  • It is all or nothing. Every app that follows the system proxy on that network uses it, and apps with their own networking can skip it.

A proxy app fixes both. Shadowrocket runs as an on-device VPN, forwards traffic to your proxy over Wi-Fi and cellular, supports SOCKS5 with a password, and routes by rule. The Android guide covers the same limits on Android phones.

Managed iPhones and iPads

For a fleet, the Wi-Fi payload in a device management profile carries the same settings: a manual proxy type, server, port, and an optional username and password (Apple's Wi-Fi payload reference). Supervised devices can also take a global HTTP proxy that applies beyond one Wi-Fi network. Either way the settings are pushed, not typed on each device.

Verify the exit IP

  1. Open https://api.ipify.org?format=json in Safari.
  2. The ip value should be the IP on your order.
  3. Turn the proxy Off and reload: you should see your own network's IP.

Test any app you care about as well. An app that ignores the system proxy shows its own IP to the sites it talks to, whatever Safari says.

Several IPs

The Wi-Fi setting holds one proxy. For several static IPs on one phone, keep them as separate servers in a proxy app and switch between them, or give each device its own. Holding one fixed IP per account is the case for buying a single static IP, and ISP proxies are sold one IP at a time. On a Mac, the macOS guide sets the same proxy system-wide.

Troubleshooting

  • Pages do not load. Wrong server or port, or the SOCKS5 port in the HTTP field.
  • A sign-in box keeps appearing. The saved username or password is wrong, or Authentication is off while the order expects credentials.
  • It works at home but not elsewhere. The proxy belongs to one Wi-Fi network; set it on the new one, and update the allowlist if you use it.
  • Safari works, an app does not. The app ignores the system proxy. Use a proxy app.

The proxy error codes guide explains the status codes a browser shows.