How To Find The MAC Address of Your Apple iPhone

Posted on July 2, 2007 
Filed Under Apple, Technology, iPhone

If you have a wireless network that you secure by restricting the MAC addresses, then you will have to enter the MAC address of your Apple iPhone in order to allow it to connect to that network.

To figure out the MAC address of your iPhone, start at the home menu. Select Settings -> General -> About. Scroll down that screen and you’ll see a setting called “Wi-Fi Address”, that is your iPhone MAC address.

Now enter that exact address as an allowed MAC address on your wireless network. The directions on this will vary because every router’s menu and interface is different so consult your router manual if you need help with this.

Once you have done this, go back to your iPhone and go to the Settings menu again. Select Wi-Fi and it should display your network in the list of available networks to connect to. Click the network name to connect.

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5 Responses to “How To Find The MAC Address of Your Apple iPhone”

  1. Ben on January 8th, 2008 10:29 pm

    Don’t try to ’secure’ your wifi by restricting allowed MAC addresses. Anyone who even remotely knows what they’re doing will watch the network until a valid MAC connects, then spoof theirs to be the valid one. Use WPA2.

  2. Jim on January 14th, 2008 5:41 pm

    Oo use both MAC addressing and WPA2. Can’t hurt.

  3. James on January 20th, 2008 12:34 pm

    Well I lock my network with MAC address only. But then I do not broadcast my SSID, which in a way hide my SSID, so no 1 would see my router on the computer even if they are in the next room. I think it is secure enough thou.

  4. Just Vik on February 7th, 2008 10:47 am

    That tip for the router to hide the ssid it’s great. good one and very secure actually!!

  5. Kurt on May 7th, 2008 6:10 pm

    Just FYI: Security of wifi networks is compromised by people using sniffers that passively listen to all wifi traffic regardless of whether you have enabled beaconing on your access point. A sniffer is like a scanner that listens to all channels at once, then records all the packets for cracking later when enough “interesting” data has been amassed.

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