Mac Address

Sorry, MAC address is masked in iOS. What you seek is no longer possible.

Also, the MAC address isn't impossible to change on the router hardware. (My home wireless router even has two convenient buttons, one to clone my laptop's MAC address and the other to enter any arbitrar MAC address I'd like.) The MAC addresses on the wireless routers are just as easy for the access point administrators to change as the IP addresses are, simply because the devices can be told to use an arbitrary address instead of the factory assigned one.

However, it sounds like you're getting the MAC addresses of the various devices and interfaces conflated. Almost all of the time, the discussions concerning getting the MAC address of a mobile device revolves around getting the address for that device, an address which is completely different from the MAC address of the wireless access point.

What you're trying to do is generally done by:

1. Determine the IP address of the default gateway.
2. Perform an ARP query for the MAC address of the gateway.

What you don't want to do is just use code to get the device's MAC address, because that's just going to keep giving you the MAC address of the iPod touch or iPhone that you're using. And when you try to do that, you're going to get the masked/falsified MAC address.

But, really, at this point what you need to ask is "What do I do when I discover that the technical details of my senior project are wrong? With whom do I discuss changes to the project?"

yes, this was the same thing I got as a response from the developer I asked but is it possible on getting it by some other way? I have searched apps on the app store that displays the Mac Address from a router or access point but why I can't do the same??... how do they get it.

I know that a MAC address can't be changed that is why my teacher told me that it was the best way of doing my app because as it is not possible to change I will have a working App until they change the access points (the hardware).

Regarding the coding, I am using a code already created by a developer to get the MAC address from the Access Point not the Device. It is still showing a Masked or False Mac Address.

HHELP!

It's masked because the code you're using and apparently do not understand

IS grabbing the local (device) not the remote(access point/router). To get

anything from the access point or router you must query that hardware

directly which is not supported under the cfnetwork frameworks. In other

words, you need to write your own networking routines and actually poll

the access point yourself.

BY the way, as NotMyName stated, the MAC address of routers and access points

CAN be changed. It's the MAC address of your iPod iPhone iPad or Mac that can't

be changed.

If you're using the right code to get the router's mac address and it's being masked, then that means that the iOS privacy measures are blocking it. If that's the case, then it's wonderful news and it saves everyone else work. Your projected as you have specified it is impossible to accomplish and no one can help you until you change the terms of your project or you choose to do a different project.

Dealing with unexpected technical challenges, or unexpected technical failures, is an excellent life lesson and an excellent opportunity for personal growth. Please don't waste this opportunity that you have been presented with.

Thank you Very Much I will contact you if I have any other problems. Thanks for your help, much appreciated!.