[macOS 13.3] Automatic protocol selection now broken; can only connect to VPN manually selecting IKEv2 protocol on MacBook Pro

As title says. I updated my MBP on Tuesday to the latest version of Ventura (13.3) and all of a sudden, ExpressVPN will not let me browse any internet traffic unless I manually go to Preferences > Protocol and select IKEv2. I’ve never had to change this setting, it was on Automatic all the time and my connections have been solid for years. Support thinks my ISP may be blocking traffic on the other protocols (example: Lightway).

Anyone else seeing this on your Macs? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Devices on iOS 16.4 are connecting fine to EVPN, issue only happening on my MBP.

Uninstall and remove all traces. Then reinstall.

See if that helps.

Same problem on my iPhone w/ iOS 14. Had to revert to App version 11.51.1 or below to get it to work on Auto or Lightway instead of IKEv2. All newer versions won’t connect.

Tried uninstalling app and reinstalling latest version - did not work.

Tried using iCleaner to fully remove all app data - did not work.

u/ramm64 did you ever get it resolved for other protocols? After my vpn not working, i finally went through protocols and discovered it only woorks in ikev2 mode too. Same as you on macbook, ventura. Never had issues like this before. Support also told me about isp potentially blocking it but im not sure about that.

Also I noticed that while connected to the vpn, on other protocols, I can still ping ip addresses, its just DNS that doesnt work.

Didn’t work for me. Uninstalled and removed all traces of ExpressVPN. Rebooted and then re-installed the MacOS version. Only IKEv2 works for me

Sorry, I didn’t get back to troubleshooting this issue and haven’t had the need to use EVPN on my MBP in a while. I’m guessing this merits a call to support to log as an issue, given both of us are experiencing it.

Thank you for getting back to me!

I actually contacted support already and sent them the log files, but best they could come up with is to try different protocols. They had no suggestions on how to get it to work with ones that dont work.

having exact same issue now