I haven’t come across any official documentation regarding the limit on the number of Network Extensions macOS can run. However, I did see some discussions suggesting that Apple might restrict this to 5 extensions in macOS Tahoe.
Is there any official confirmation on this?
I did see some discussions suggesting that Apple might restrict this to 5 extensions in macOS Tahoe.
Where did you see those discussions?
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@DTS Engineer If there is already 4 Filter extension enabled, 5th one fails and below is the log stream output.
Exceeded Content Filter limit, TESTFilter superceded
2026-03-08 11:44:17.270577+0530 0x198d3 Default 0x0 466 0 nehelper: (NetworkExtension) [com.apple.networkextension:] +[NEConfigurationManager configuration:overlapsWithOtherConfiguration:sameTypeCount:perAppCount:]: Exceeded Content Filter limit, TESTFilter superceded
I have tested this on macOS 26.3.1
Is this documented somewhere?