GC Wallet vs Connection Check

GC (Government of Canada) Wallet is a privacy respecting mobile application designed to help you securely store, manage, and present your digital credentials. Digital credentials are electronic equivalents of traditional physical credentials and enable the secure digital verification of information online or in person via a digital wallet. While GC Wallet is available in this app store, it currently supports only a limited set of digital credentials as part of a Government of Canada approved pilot tests GC Wallet is intended strictly for use by authorized pilot participants. It should not be used beyond the scope of the approved pilot tests. Important notes The GC Wallet App is currently under active development and subject to change as we test features, improve functionality, and gather feedback. It is being tested as part of GC Issue and Verify, a Government of Canada initiative to make it easier to issue, store, present and verify digital versions of existing physical credentials (such as licenses or certificates). GC Wallet is not part of a national digital identity initiative. There is no work underway by the Government of Canada to create a national digital identity. Instead, the GC Wallet app provides a secure, voluntary way to store, manage and present digital credentials when accessing services. Use of digital credentials remains completely voluntary.

Connection Check shows you, in plain language, the network path iOS makes available to apps on your device — whether you are online, which interfaces are in use, and whether the network is expensive or in Low Data Mode. It is a focused, privacy-first utility: no account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing leaves your device. AT A GLANCE See an instant Online, Offline, or "Requires connection" status, with a clear explanation of what it means for your apps. INTERFACES Check whether the current path may use Wi-Fi, Cellular, Wired Ethernet, Loopback, or another interface type. Tap any row to learn what it means. NETWORK CONDITIONS Find out if iOS considers your connection "expensive" (such as cellular or Personal Hotspot) or "constrained" by Low Data Mode — the same signals well-behaved apps use to save your data. PLAIN-LANGUAGE EXPLANATIONS Every status, interface, and condition comes with a friendly explanation, plus the underlying technical detail for the curious and for developers. TECHNICAL DETAILS & DIAGNOSTICS Expand the technical section to see raw values (path status, interface availability, DNS / IPv4 / IPv6 support) and copy a clean, plain-text diagnostic summary to share with support. TEST REQUEST Run a single small request and watch how per-request policy toggles — allow cellular, expensive, or constrained access — change the outcome. These settings apply only to this app's own request, never to your whole phone. WHAT THIS APP CANNOT DO Connection Check cannot read your total mobile data usage, your carrier usage, or other apps' data usage. It only shows the network path information iOS makes available to this app. PRIVACY No sign-in. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing is collected or sent anywhere.