Need to assign my own MAC Address

nomad86 wrote:

Thank you sir, that's why my question was "when" they would let us do so.

No one here could possibly answer that. We are not Apple. Apple has made no public statements regarding any intent of offering that feature.

That said, I believe you're going at this backwards... most routers have the ability to set a user defined MAC address. Based on what you want to accomplish, you should be setting the MAC address on the public interface for your router to the same MAC address your phone has, not the other way round.

Well, you can always tell Apple what you want:https://apple.com/feedback. There’s not point in telling us other users in this user-to-user forum. Apple won’t see it.

Mr. Finch, please see my response. Set me straight. I am under the impression that iPhone's MAC address is kept private with that setting set to ON. NOTE that I understand that the MAC address cannot be changed however it can be kept private where allowed. Am I off base completely?

Axel F.

NEVER. If you could assign your own MAC address that would allow you to hack into anyone’s router that had MAC filtering enabled.

You cannot select your own MAC address. There is no way to do that.

If you are referring to private Mac Address over a Wi-Fi network then you already have it and is probably already set to ON. Connect to a Wi-Fi Network and:

Open Settings ➔ W-Fi ➔ Tap on the "i" next to the Wi-Fi Network's name: Set Private Address to ON.

Axel F.

You are correct, Axel. I read the OP as wanting to choose the MAC address the phone would use. That’s not possible.

I think that you understood the question better than I did. I believe OP's follow up response confirms that. All yours now, Sir.

Axel F.