Glad this feature is built into most modern operating systems these days.

For MacOS (Sequoia+) you can just forget the network and reconnect to get a new MAC address [1].

Android's documentation for if it decides to generate a new address per connection is a little vague [2], but I'm guessing forgetting and reconnecting works as well, you may also need to flip the "Wi-Fi non-persistent MAC randomization" bit in developer settings.

On Windows, flipping the "Random hardware address" switch seems to cause it to generate a new seed/address for me.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-euro/102509

[2] https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-mac-random...

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lxgr a day ago | parent | next [-]

Per [1], this only works once per 24 hours on new iOS/macOS versions, and only once per two weeks on older ones though.

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km3r a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah I had to flip the developer setting toggle, but worked flawlessly for my flight (American Airlines has a watch an ad for 20 minutes of free internet that only works once per MAC)

	▲	fendale 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Are you saying that on IOS 18 if you enable developer mode then each time you forgot the network it gets a new Mac? But without developer mode it does not get a new Mac each time you forget it? The Apple docs linked elsewhere in this thread suggest it only gets a new Mac once per 24 hours when you forget the network normally. I’m going on a long boat trip in the next week where this trick might work for me if so!

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userbinator 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a generic Android phone from many years ago where the manufacturer didn't even bother to program the WiFi NVRAM, so every time you load and unload the driver, you get a new randomly generated MAC address. Interesting that that has become a feature these days.

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bapak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the rotating address is limited to 3, right? The script here generates one at random.