Airplane WiFi Captive Portal on MacOS

We are using Sophos Central with client version 10.3.4 on M1 Chip MacBooks with MacOS 12.4.  GoGo WiFi will no longer bring up the Captive Portal page.  When booting into Safe Mode it works fine.  When looking at the streaming log in terminal there are many failed connections for Sophos trying to connect to Sophos Central.  My theory is that this traffic is causing the Captive Portal page not to open.  Has anyone found any resolution to this.  All normal things have been tried, like going directly to the Captive Portal Page, Going to 1.1.1.1, Removing the SSID from the known network list, etc.



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[edited by: Gladys at 2:08 AM (GMT -7) on 17 Jun 2022]
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  • Has this been resolved?  I do not see a viable answer in this thread and I can confirm the same problem.  I was on a United Flight this week and after months of this problem I finally removed Sophos and was finally able to access the Wifi.  It is most definitely a Sophos issue.  What is the solution?  

  • I can confirm that this continues to be a problem even on Ventura 13.3.  So far, our workaround has been to create a separate Web Control Policy for MacBooks and disable Acceptable Web Usage - not ideal.  Even with this disabled I still have one Mac user that is having issues on airline networks that use a pay-wall (nearly all of them).  I still have not found a work around for that yet.

    Like others in this thread, removing Sophos solves the problem entirely.  I have had multiple cases open with Sophos and the answer I am always given is that it is an Apple problem and the work around it to give local users Admin rights to temporarily disable captive portals.  I have two clients that are ready to move away from Sophos all together because of this,

    Any aditional support or advice is welcome, of course.  But, "It's Apple's problem." no longer works as an answer.

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  • I can confirm that this continues to be a problem even on Ventura 13.3.  So far, our workaround has been to create a separate Web Control Policy for MacBooks and disable Acceptable Web Usage - not ideal.  Even with this disabled I still have one Mac user that is having issues on airline networks that use a pay-wall (nearly all of them).  I still have not found a work around for that yet.

    Like others in this thread, removing Sophos solves the problem entirely.  I have had multiple cases open with Sophos and the answer I am always given is that it is an Apple problem and the work around it to give local users Admin rights to temporarily disable captive portals.  I have two clients that are ready to move away from Sophos all together because of this,

    Any aditional support or advice is welcome, of course.  But, "It's Apple's problem." no longer works as an answer.

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