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Your iPhone uses its real MAC address as soon as you unlock your device. Unfortunately, many networks still do security by MAC address, so a random MAC address
by Matt3o12_ 9y ago
Your iPhone uses its real MAC address as soon as you unlock your device. Unfortunately, many networks still do security by MAC address, so a random MAC address would break WiFi on many networks.
- Sephiroth87 9y agoThe only source for this a could find was an old paper on iOS 8, while this more recent one https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02874.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02874.pdf seems to suggest the randomisation works as intended for unknown networks...