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Install and verify

The genuine app is distributed only through the App Store

Shadowrocket is published by Shadow Launch Technology Limited. The app ID is 932747118. What you buy in the store is the client. It does not include a server or a data plan.

Use this official product page to confirm the developer and app ID. Availability varies by country:

Open the App Store product page

Check before you buy

  1. Search the App Store for Shadowrocket. Use the English name.
  2. The developer on the product page must be Shadow Launch Technology Limited.
  3. Confirm it is a one-time purchase, not a monthly data plan.
  4. Price is whatever the current store shows. The US listing is commonly $2.99; other regions convert to local currency.

After install, the Home Screen icon is a rocket on a dark background. Opening it should show a connection switch and a configuration entry, not a browser or an unrelated website.

The current store does not list it

Some regions no longer list the app. Not finding it only means the store you are signed into is not selling it. It does not mean the app itself is dead.

Search your local App Store first. If it is missing, open the official link above and see whether the current Apple ID can buy. If it says you cannot download, you need an Apple ID in a region where the app is still listed, that you own, and that can pay. This site does not provide shared accounts and does not help you register one.

Do not download an IPA, a configuration profile, or an unofficial installer, and do not sign in with an Apple ID you do not know, just because the app is not in your store. Those are not official distribution channels.

Family Sharing

The product page says Family Sharing is supported, with up to six people in the same family for this purchase. Follow the text you see when you open the store. Family Sharing is not lending the account to people outside the family.

What you bought and what you did not

How to install it again after you delete it

Open the App Store with the same Apple ID that paid, go to Purchased, and download it again. You usually do not pay a second time. Another iPhone or iPad signed into the same account is the same purchase. The configuration will not follow. Import it separately using Backup, new device, and multiple devices.

After it is installed

Do not look in the system for an “already connected line.” At this point you only have an empty client. The next step is allowing the system to add a VPN configuration. See First launch and VPN setup. Product capabilities and compatible devices are in About.