Revealed with iOS 17.1: iPhone's privacy feature did not work for three years!

Private WiFi Address ”, a new feature that comes with iOS 14 , hides the user's MAC address; At least that's what Apple tells its users. Security researchers discovered that this privacy feature did not actually work until iOS 17.1.

iOS - 28-10-2023 13:09

Private WiFi feature did not protect privacy!
The Private Wi-Fi Address feature, which came to iPhones with iOS 14 , reduces traceability by showing a different private WiFi address for each network instead of sharing the MAC address with the network. However, according to security researchers, although the feature shares the private WiFi address during connection, it is in a different area.MAC addressHe continues to share. It is stated that an informed person can access the real MAC address without any problems.

The recently released iOS 17.1 update includes a fix for a vulnerability that prevents the private Wi-Fi address feature from working.

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