Ios – How to programmatically get the MAC address of an iphone

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How to programmatically get an iPhone's MAC address and IP address?

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NOTE As of iOS7, you can no longer retrieve device MAC addresses. A fixed value will be returned rather than the actual MAC

Somthing I stumbled across a while ago. Originally from here I modified it a bit and cleaned things up.

IPAddress.h
IPAddress.c

And to use it

InitAddresses();
GetIPAddresses();
GetHWAddresses();

int i;
NSString *deviceIP = nil;
for (i=0; i<MAXADDRS; ++i)
{
    static unsigned long localHost = 0x7F000001;        // 127.0.0.1
    unsigned long theAddr;

    theAddr = ip_addrs[i];

    if (theAddr == 0) break;
    if (theAddr == localHost) continue;

    NSLog(@"Name: %s MAC: %s IP: %s\n", if_names[i], hw_addrs[i], ip_names[i]);

        //decided what adapter you want details for
    if (strncmp(if_names[i], "en", 2) == 0)
    {
        NSLog(@"Adapter en has a IP of %s", ip_names[i]);
    }
}

Adapter names vary depending on the simulator/device as well as wifi or cell on the device.

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