topic National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK in Mobile Services

National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:06:36 GMT

I think it is Apple private relay doing it

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Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

bristolian — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:37:33 GMT

Out of interest, is your IP geolocated in the UK? whatismyip.com should tell you.

Please don't post your IP on here.

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

XRaySpeX — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:43:14 GMT

The IP, 172.226.1**.**, is located to United Kingdom Hounslow Akamai Technologies Inc. but is owned by Akamai Technologies, Inc. of 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, US.

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Chris_B — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:46:33 GMT

@Kirigaya_Kazuto It’s working for me with private relay. Try restarting location services.

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Kirigaya_Kazuto — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:41:01 GMT

Sorry, I made the mistake of posting it, as it wasn't an address on my home wifi (so not my IP). it should be, I was on 5G at work - using Apples relay. I haven't attempted to turn it off and see if it works

Saying that, I loaded it over 4G and got an IP of 104.28.**.**

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Darcy13 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:43:14 GMT

With mine it was definitely Apple Private relay. Included in my ICloud storage subscription there is Apple Private Relay to stop government and other sites tracking your browsing history through your IP address. The National Lottery is one site that automatically checks IP addresses to authenticate you are UK resident. However because they can not identify the country it is presumed you are outside the UK and blocks access. To solve it I went to my device Settings, click on my iCloud data, scrolled down and turned off the Private Relay for the day.

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Chris_B — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:38:14 GMT

@Darcy13 I’ve literally just logged in to the lottery with private relay switched on. I’ve got my IP setting set to “use country and time zone“ But you don’t need to switch off private relay as you can do this for some websites.

If a website doesn't work with Private Relay

If a website relies on IP filtering, monitoring or rate-limiting, it may require your IP address to be visible. You can turn off Private Relay temporarily for that website only.

To temporarily allow a website to see your IP address:*

iPhone or iPad: tap the Page Settings button

, then tap Show IP Address.
Mac: in Safari, choose View > Reload and Show IP Address.

you might want to read more about this HERE But again the lottery website works for me with private relay.

Re: National lottery website doesn’t think I’m in the UK

Popsman — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:52:24 GMT

This worked for me, as the euro lottery said I was outside the UK. I’m in middle England. (With BT/EE If it makes a difference? )
I think it’s because I was using an iPad.
I went to iCloud in SETTINGS then TURNED OFF PRIVATE RELAY. See below.. I turned it OFF . It worked ok immediately, then on again AFTER I HAD used the lottery.
Hope this is helpful.

When you turn it OFF you or rather I got this.