Find the “About” option and tap on it. Locate Wi-Fi Address: About will display the information of your device. Locate the “Wi-Fi Address” from the list. This Wi-Fi Address is the IP Address of your iPhone. Locate Wi-Fi Address. Now just enter this exact IP address as an allowed MAC address on your Wireless Network. How do I find the MAC address of my iOS device? To locate the MAC Address of your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, follow these steps: Tap Settings. The Mac address is listed as Wi-Fi Address. To find the MAC address of your Chromecast, follow the steps below: Locating the MAC address during Chromecast setup. From the 'Connect to Wi-Fi' screen of the setup process, tap More located in the top right corner. Tap Show MAC Address. Locating the MAC address after Chromecast setup. MAC Address is a unique identifier which represents your device. To find MAC address on iPhone 6, iPhone 5 or other iPads, iPhones and iPods do as follows: 1. Open the Settings from the home screen 2. Go to the General settings 3. Hit the About on the top 4. Now, scroll down to the Wi-Fi Address which is the MAC Address of your iPhone.
If you've lost or misplaced a device, here are some of the things you can do. Just use the Find My app on another iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac signed in with the same Apple ID. You can also use the Find My app on a device owned by someone in your Family Sharing group, or sign in to iCloud.com/find to locate your device using a browser.
See it on a map
Open the Find My app.
Choose the Devices tab.
Select the device to see its location on the map. If you belong to a Family Sharing group, you can see the devices in your group.
Choose Directions to open its location in Maps.
If you turned on Offline Finding, you can see your device's location even if it's not connected to a Wi-Fi or cellular network.
Don't see your device? You might not have Find My [device] turned on. If your device is powered off, the battery has run out, or more than 24 hours has passed since its last location was sent to Apple, you also can't see your device's location. Learn how you can still protect your information.
Play a sound
Open the Find My app.
Choose the Devices tab.
Select your missing device, then choose Play Sound. If your device is offline, it won't play a sound until it connects to a network.
Mark your device as lost
Open the Find My app and choose the Devices tab.
Select your missing device.
Scroll down to Mark As Lost and select Activate.
Follow the onscreen steps if you want your phone number to display on your missing device, or if you want to enter a custom message asking the finder of your missing device to contact you.
Select Activate.
What happens if you activate Mark As Lost
Mark as Lost remotely locks your missing iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac with a passcode, keeping your information secure even if your device goes missing. You can also display a custom message with your phone number on the Lock screen, and keep track of your device's location.
Once Mark as Lost is activated, Apple Pay is disabled, if you have it set up on the device. Fluke 8000a manual. A confirmation email is sent to the primary email address associated with your Apple ID. When you recover your device, you will need to unlock it with your passcode.
Erase a device
Make sure you try the steps above to recover your missing device—this can't be undone.
Open the Find My app and choose the Devices tab.
Select the device you want to remotely erase.
Scroll down and choose Erase This Device.
Select Erase This [device].
If your missing device is covered by AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss, you shouldn't erase your device. Instead, file a claim for your lost or stolen device.
What happens if you erase a device
To prevent anyone else from accessing the data on your missing device, you can erase it remotely. When you erase your device, all of your information (including credit, debit, or prepaid cards for Apple Pay) is deleted from the device, and you won't be able to track it using Find My.
Learn what features are available for your missing device
Make sure that the recovery feature you're trying to use is available for your lost or stolen device:
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch
View Location
Play a Sound
Lost Mode
Remote Erase
Mac
View Location
Play a Sound
Lock your Mac
Remote Erase
If you need more help
If your device is powered off, the battery has run out, or more than 24 hours has passed since its last location was sent to Apple, you can't see your device's location.
If you turned on Find My [device] before your device was lost or stolen, learn how to find your missing iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or Mac. You can also locate your missing Apple Watch or AirPods.
If you did not turn on Find My [device] before your device was lost or stolen, learn how you can protect your information.
If you remove a missing device from your account after you erase it, Activation Lock will be turned off. This allows another person to turn on and use your device. Learn more.
For starters, MAC Address stands for Media Access Control Address. It is used as a unique identifier for your device on network interfaces like wireless networks (Wi-Fi) and Ethernet connections. To further break it down: you know how network providers use your phone's IMEI number to identify your device on their networks, MAC address performs the same function but for all things internet-related.
These MAC addresses are built-in or burned-in addresses, and like IMEI numbers, no two devices have the same MAC address. That is why they are a very effective means of identifying devices on network interfaces. Their structure can get confusing.
In this article, we will walk you through some uses of MAC addresses for wireless network connectivity and how you can find the MAC addresses of your devices — mobile and PC.
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Using MAC Addresses
Primarily, MAC addresses are used to identify devices connected to your home or office network. While you can use device names to identify devices connected to your network, the MAC address is a more accurate identifier.
Say you have two friends over at your place, and their smartphones (iPhone X and OnePlus 7) are connected to your home internet. Blocking either of them might be difficult because both devices would not appear as iPhone X and OnePlus 7 on your router admin panel. Instead, they would be identified by a weird-looking combination of 12 alphanumeric characters grouped in twos by a colon or a hyphen.
So instead of seeing iPhone X or OnePlus 7 on your router dashboard, you will most likely see something like this: 23-78-98-A8-8P-6C or 75:8A:8B:48:12:54. These are typical formats for MAC addresses.
Another use-case of the MAC address is for unblocking a device from your Wi-Fi network. If you have numerous devices that you have blacklisted from your home or office internet, whitelisting a device would be difficult if you don't know its MAC address.
Additionally, if you have a router that lets you prioritize internet traffic by devices through Quality of Service (QoS) settings, knowing the MAC address of your devices is also important. That is because you can only add a device to the QoS rules or priority networks of your router using its MAC address.
Now that you know what a MAC address is, what it does, as well as it uses, check out how to identify the MAC addresses of your mobile phone and computer.
Finding MAC Addresses
1. How to Find MAC Address on Android
Step 1: Launch your device's Settings menu.
Step 2: Tap 'Network & Internet' option.
Step 3: Tap Wi-Fi.
Step 4: On the Wi-Fi settings menu, tap the name of the Wi-Fi device you are connected to. Alternatively, tap the gear icon.
Step 5: Tap the Advance drop-down button.
You should see your device's MAC address (under the Network details section).
2. How to Find MAC Address on Windows PC
Method 1
Step 1: Tap the Wi-Fi icon on the system tray/taskbar.
Step 2: On the network, you are connected to, tap Properties.
Step 3: Scroll to the bottom of the network settings page, and under the Properties section, you should see your computer's Wi-Fi MAC address.
Method 2
Step 1: Type in cmd into your Windows search bar and tap Command Prompt on the search result.
That launches the Command Prompt application in a new window.
Step 2: Type or paste this command ipconfig /all into the Command Prompt console and hit the Enter button.
That will display a bunch of network configurations in the console.
Step 3: Under the 'Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi' section, check for Physical address to see the Wi-Fi MAC address of your Windows computer.
3. How to Find MAC Address on iPhone or iPad
Step 1: Launch the Settings menu on your iPhone or iPad.
Step 2: Tap General.
Step 3: Tap About.
Step 4: Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the Wi-Fi address. That is the MAC address of your iOS device.
4. How to Find MAC Address on Router's Admin Panel
You can also remotely check for MAC addresses of a device from the admin panel or dashboard of your Wi-Fi router.
Because there are several brands of routers, each with varying configurations and settings, we cannot provide accurate steps for checking MAC Addresses on your router's admin panel. We recommend that you check the device management section of your router. You should find a couple of devices connected to your Wi-Fi alongside their MAC addresses.
Note: We also recommend checking the instruction manual or online documentation for your router on the manufacturer’s website to determine how to check connected devices and their MAC addresses.
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Take Control of Your Network
You can identify devices on your network using MAC addresses. On top of that, you can manage your network quality by filtering out unwanted devices, assigning better QoS settings, prioritizing traffic, etc. However, you can do all these effectively only if you know the MAC addresses of devices hooked to your network. Follow the steps above to check the MAC address of your Android and iOS phones as well as your Windows computer.
Next up: Ever wondered what an Internet Protocol address (IP address) is? We explained everything you need to know in the article linked below.
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