"Apple's Broken Promise: iPhones Expose Unique MAC Despite Assurances"

Apple's privacy-enhancing feature introduced three years ago, which was supposed to hide the Wi-Fi MAC address of iPhones and iPads when joining a network, has been found to have never worked as advertised. The real MAC address was still being broadcasted to all connected devices on the network, allowing for potential tracking of individuals. Apple released a patch in iOS 17.1 to fix the vulnerability, but it remains unclear how such a basic failure went unnoticed for so long.