When communicating over Wi-Fi, your iPhone needs to verify itself on the network before it can receive data—intended for it—on that network. It does this using a MAC address or Wi-Fi address. While ...

Did you know that your Apple Watch can use a different MAC address with each Wi-Fi network to prevent network operators from tracking your activity across different Wi-Fi networks? To communicate with ...

Every time you connect your iPhone or iPad to a Wi-Fi network, the network uses your device’s MAC address to identify it and allow it to communicate on the network. In an ideal scenario, this is ...

Another one of the under the radar but valuable privacy changes to come with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 is the option to mask your device’s Wi-Fi address. Read along for how to easily use a private Wi-Fi ...

A MAC address may be the address of your Mac, but they’re not interchangeable. MAC stands for Media (or Medium) Access Control, a geeky term for a part of network communications between the actual ...

Apple's iOS devices have often been hailed as the gold standard for safeguarding user data. However, recent revelations about a privacy feature in iOS have raised eyebrows. Android Authority tells us ...

Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never ...

iOS 14 introduced a “private Wi-Fi address” feature that claimed to hide your MAC address and share a different identifier when you connect to Wi-Fi. However, security researchers discovered that the ...

A rotating Wi-Fi address helps reduce tracking by changing your Wi-Fi address at various times. Tracking can happen when your address always appears the same to other devices and people using the same ...