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 ...

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 ...

Apple introduced a feature that would hide a user's permanent MAC address in 2020, but it's been virtually useless until iOS 17.1 thanks to a now patched vulnerability. When a device connects to a ...

Your MAC (Media Access Control) address is vital information. It’s a hardware identifier that helps networks locate your computer (or other device) for various purposes — think of it as the number on ...

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 ...