Epic for iOS and Android are live in the App Store and the Android Play Store. We're EpicBrowser on Twitter and on Facebook. Please feel free to also email our Founder directly with issues or questions: alok at hiddenreflex dot com
No, it should close the VPN connection. It may be related to some changes in iOS. Sorry about that. Will be fixed in our next udpate. You can also manually disable it as needed via the iOS VPN settings.