Find the IP Address of an iPhone or iPad
Sep 3, 2011 - 5 Comments
Getting an iPhone or iPads IP address is fairly straight forward, and the instructions are the same for basically all versions of iOS. From the devices home screen:
- Tap on the “Settings” icon and navigate and tap on “Wi-Fi Networks”
- Find the network name of the router you are currently connected to, and tap on the blue arrow button next to the active networks name
- Assuming you are usually a DHCP address, scroll down and find the IP Address in the format of x.x.x.x, for example 192.168.1.2
If your iOS device is using a manually set static IP address, or BootP, you can just tap on those tabs to access that information instead.
Knowing the devices IP address is useful for a variety of things, from adjusting bandwidth settings on a router, to transferring files directly, to using SSH to connect to an iPhone.
Ah! But what about their IPv6 addresses?
It’ll dish out the IPv4 addy
[...] the Terminal or your preferred SSH client, find the iOS IP address, and connect to the iPhone using SSH [...]
The problem is that the IPs are dynamically assigned. I want to freak a friend out by telling him his Longitude and Latitude randomly (he’s on the road a lot).
The system has to be able to find the phone; it has to be possible.
How?
~H~
The IP adress box is empty on my Ipad 2. I dont have any cellular data on my Ipad. Can someone help me?