Why Does My Android Phone Have a Mac Address?
Contents Starting in Android 8.0, Android Devices Use Randomized Mac Addresses When Probing for New Networks While Not Currently Associated with a Network. in...
Starting in Android 8.0, Android devices use randomized MAC addresses when probing for new networks while not currently associated with a network. In Android 9, you can enable a developer option (it’s disabled by default) to cause the device to use a randomized MAC address when connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
Why does my phone have a MAC address?
Why Your Devices Have Unique MAC Addresses
Each physical network interface — whether it’s a wired Ethernet card in a desktop PC or a Wi-Fi chipset in a smartphone — ships with a unique MAC address. This number is designed to be unique to the hardware. This lets networks you connect to identify the device.
Why would an Android phone have a MAC address?
Mac addresses identify your devices on a network so that servers, apps, and the internet know where to send packets of data, and some also use it to track your device’s activity.
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