New Apple iOS 8 Randomizes MAC Address while Scanning for WiFi Networks

Thanks to Apple’s upcoming feature which will enhance users privacy to one step higher than other smartphone providers. 

When your mobile device scan for a free Wi-Fi network, whether at the shopping complex, airport, or restaurant, it sends out the MAC address which is a unique identifier of the device that allows devices to distinguish between one another on a network.
 
Routers need this identifier to connect you to a network. Advertisers and retailers have been seeking to track these identifiers to help offer personalized advertisements to customers based on where they’ve been.

Apple announced the change during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino last week, revealing that the feature will restrict the information your device will share when it will scan for near-by wi-fi networks. To do this, the device will spoof MAC addresses that it broadcast to the all available wi-fi network when device searches for them.

“In iOS 8, Wi-Fi scanning behavior has changed to use random, locally administrated MAC addresses,” Apple notes. This exactly means that “the MAC address used for Wi-Fi scans may not always be the device’s real (universal) address,” Apple explains.

 This  good also for 1hour limit for free WiFi Hotspot in the Philippines . Because  1 hour internet session for each MAC Address, so when your phone create a spoof MAC again you can enjoy another Free WiFi .