iCloud+ is coming this fall with new privacy features, like hiding your email and preventing internet service providers from seeing which sites you visit. But experts say some users find the features limiting.

If you own an Apple device, chances are you already have an iCloud subscription. If you don’t, iCloud+ might be worth considering. In addition to better support for HomeKit’s secure video cameras, the subscription also includes a system called Private Relay, which works similarly to a virtual private network (VPN). It’s a core tenet of the subscription, but experts say it may be too limited to fully protect consumers.

"Private Relay is part of Apple's ongoing effort to promote a more privacy-focused operating system, but there will still be some caveats," Daniel Markuson, a privacy expert at NordVPN, told Lifewire in an email. "Apple says Private Relay hides a user's traffic from ISPs, advertisers, and even Apple itself. While there are similarities, it protects your data by tunneling everything you do online when you enable a VPN on your computer, smartphone, tablet, smart TV, or even router."

While Private Relay works in a similar way to a VPN, Apple has clarified that it is a feature that will only be available when users are browsing the web in Safari, the company’s default browser. While many use Safari on their Apple devices, other popular browsers include Firefox, Google Chrome, Brave, and Opera.