At the recent WWDC 2024, all of Apple's operating systems received a number of major upgrades One small but quality feature you may have missed is the new Wi-Fi privacy feature Apple is releasing for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia

Currently, iPhones, iPads, and Macs have a "Private Wi-Fi" option to minimize wi-fi tracking This feature assigns a different MAC address to the device for each Wi-Fi network it connects to

However, with the new update, this feature will be replaced by Wi-Fi address rotation According to Apple, this feature will be available when accessing the settings of any Wi-Fi network

As reported by MacRumors, Apple says, "Wi-Fi address rotation helps reduce tracking by changing your Wi-Fi address at various times Tracking can occur if your address always looks the same to other devices and people using the same network as you

With Rotate Wi-Fi Address, the tool will randomly change your Wi-Fi address while you are connected to the network

This remains a separate feature from the IP address tracking restrictions available in Mail and Safari

Those who want to try out the new update will have to wait until the fall, unless they download the developer beta For those with a little more patience, a more public beta will launch in July for iOS 18 And it requires at least an iPhone 15, perhaps the latest iPad Pro or iPad Air, and at least a Mac with an M1 chip, and anything older than 2020 will not work

Otherwise, most of these OS updates will probably be widely available to the public in September