Monday, July 2, 2007

How To Find The MAC Address of Your Apple 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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  • http://benanzo.blogspot.com Ben

    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.

  • Jim

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

  • James

    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.

  • Just Vik

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

  • Kurt

    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.

  • Cherine

    Nice share, thanks a lot!!

  • David

    Oh dear, no hiding the SSID is NOT very secure at all, particularly if there are any windows machines which connect to the router. For those interested, here is a link to a Microsoft technet article which describes why hiding an SSID is a bad idea.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726942.aspx

  • Moha

    Very usefull link and Very Clear.

  • http://shootingstarbbs.kicks-ass.net -DC-

    Any decent wireless sniffer can find “hidden” SSIDs. Just download NetStumbler.

  • http://balsamfir.com Cecilie

    Thank you! It worked!

  • http://www.thelasttickets.com john

    Thanks that ‘s really very good

  • shaheryar kakar

    Nice work, but is the the best way to secure Wireless network?

  • Amobi Onovo

    Thanks it worked..

  • Neil

    Jim – No, typically once the router authenticates you via a mac address it will stop right there and let the machine onto the network.

    You could do WPA2 with client side PKI certificates for machine -and- user authentication, but that’s more for enterprise wireless access, not home users.

  • Kim

    This was so helpful, thanks a million!

  • Lewis Edgel

    I use a MAC exclusion and WPA2. I like both a belt and suspenders as a way to make sure I am not caught with my pants down….

  • Gary

    Is WPA-PSK [TKIP] ok to use as network security? Is WPA2 much better than WPA?

  • Guru

    WPA2 with AES is the best wireless security as of this date.

    WPA with TKIP is theoretically crackable, although still very difficult by today’s standards.

  • Rene Fils Angus

    i have an iphone 3g but my wifi grayed out, am lookinjg for a solution to fix. i have added the mac address on the system using MobileTerminal but still not working, please help me out solving this issue.

  • Jason Ball

    Don’t forget, many people use the MAC address for static routing and IP reservation, not just for security restriction.

  • http://www.wix.com/sepasgroup/sg hazrat

    hi dear sir:
    we have wireless service in a business place but every day we find many an low IP address and mac address so how can we control my wifi service that no one can access from my wifi internet.Up to we give permission hime