iOS 14 Wi-Fi Private Address

I’ve setup my Wifi router with timed access. This allows internet for certain time slots and denies access outside these time slots. After installing iOS 14 on both my iPad and iPhone I noticed no internet for me too. But I have my own rules based on the MAC address of the devices.

Turns out there is a Private Address option (enabled by default) that spoofs your MAC address to reduce tracking across different Wifi networks. I had to turn that off to get internet. Here is where you can find it. Go into settings > Wi-Fi and press the little i after the Network to get to the page in the screenshot. If you flip the switch on Private Address everything is alright.

Seems to be a feature not a bug: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211227

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.
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