How to find your IP address on iPhone
Your iPhone shows its Wi-Fi address in Settings, hides its cellular address entirely, and never shows the public address websites see. Here is where each one is, on iOS 26 and every recent version.
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On an iPhone, open Settings, tap Wi-Fi, then tap the (i) next to the network you are on: the IP Address line under IPV4 ADDRESS is your phone's local address and Router is your router's. That address only exists inside your Wi-Fi. For the public IP that websites see, open the CheckMyIP homepage in Safari; it is shown immediately, on Wi-Fi or cellular.
Public and local IP on an iPhone: which one do you want?
An iPhone on Wi-Fi has a private address such as 192.168.1.37, handed out by the router and meaningless outside your home. The router has the public address, say 203.0.113.42, and every device on the Wi-Fi shares it. On cellular the picture is the same one level up: the carrier gives the phone an internal address and sends its traffic out through a shared public one.
| You are asked for | That means | Where it is |
|---|---|---|
| "Your IP" by a website, a game, a bank's fraud team or a support agent | Public IP | CheckMyIP homepage |
| The address to type into a printer, Plex, HomeKit bridge, file-sharing or screen-mirroring app | Local (Wi-Fi) IP | Settings > Wi-Fi > (i) |
| The router's login page | Router (gateway) IP | Same screen, the Router line |
| Your IP on mobile data | Public cellular IP | CheckMyIP with Wi-Fi off, or the Shortcuts action below |
Find your public IP instantly
Open Safari and go to CheckMyIP. The public IPv4 address, the IPv6 address if your network has one, your provider and the approximate location are at the top of the page. Nothing to install, nothing to tap.
Three things worth knowing about that number. First, on Wi-Fi it is the router's address, so your Mac, your TV and your phone all show the same one. Second, on cellular it belongs to the carrier and can change when the phone reconnects. Third, if iCloud Private Relay or a VPN is on, the address you see is the relay's or the VPN server's, not your network's; that is them doing their job, and the section on privacy features below explains what sites see. The What is my ISP page tells you which network the address belongs to, which is a quick way to tell a carrier address from a Wi-Fi one.
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Show detailsFind your Wi-Fi IP address in Settings
- Open Settings and tap Wi-Fi.
- Tap the (i) button to the right of the network with the checkmark next to it.
- Scroll to IPV4 ADDRESS. IP Address is your iPhone's local address, Subnet Mask is almost always
255.255.255.0, and Router is the address of your router. Configure IP says Automatic unless someone set a fixed address.
The DNS group below shows which resolver the phone is using, and Renew Lease asks the router for the address again, which is the fix when a device on the network cannot reach the phone. These labels have been stable since iOS 14 and are unchanged in iOS 26, so the steps work on any iPhone still receiving updates.
If an IPv6 address is listed, it starts with fe80 (link-local, used only on the Wi-Fi itself) or with 2 or 3 (a real, globally reachable address). The IPv6 test shows whether Safari actually prefers it.
On a Mac the equivalent lives in System Settings > Wi-Fi > Details, and Android users have a guide of their own.
Your IP address on cellular data
iOS has no settings screen for the cellular address. There are two ways to see it.
The quick way: turn Wi-Fi off in Control Center, wait for the 5G or LTE icon, and open CheckMyIP. That is the public address your carrier presents on your behalf.
The on-device way: the Shortcuts app has an action called Get Current IP Address. Create a new shortcut, add that action, and set Address to Local or External and Type to IPv4 or IPv6. Run it and the result appears as text. Local returns the address the carrier gave the phone; External asks the internet and returns the public one.
The local cellular address is usually strange-looking, and the pattern tells you how your carrier works:
- 10.x.x.x or 100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255: carrier-grade NAT. The carrier shares one public address among many subscribers, which is why you cannot run anything reachable from the internet on cellular and why some sites treat the whole pool as one visitor. What is CGNAT? explains it; the NAT type test detects it.
- An IPv6 address only: the carrier runs an IPv6-only network, and the phone translates older IPv4-only traffic on the way out. This is normal on the big US carriers.
Find your router's IP address on iPhone
It is the Router line on the Wi-Fi details screen: Settings > Wi-Fi > (i) > Router. Type it into Safari with http:// in front, for example http://192.168.1.1, and the router's admin login appears. Safari may warn that the connection is not private, because home routers use self-signed certificates; for a device on your own network that warning is expected.
If the router line shows 192.168.1.1, the 192.168.1.1 login guide lists default passwords by brand and the fixes when the page will not open. Other common values are 192.168.0.1, 10.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.254; the router IP guide covers the rest.
Private Wi-Fi Address, Limit IP Address Tracking and Private Relay
Three iPhone privacy features sit on the same settings screens, and people often mix them up with the IP address. Only one of them changes what websites see.
Private Wi-Fi Address (Settings > Wi-Fi > (i)) randomizes the phone's hardware MAC address per network. Since iOS 18 the options are Off, Fixed (one random address per network, the default on secured Wi-Fi) and Rotating (a new one every two weeks, the default on open networks). It has no effect on the IP address at all; it stops venues from recognizing your phone across visits. Networks that filter by MAC address may need it set to Off.
Limit IP Address Tracking (same screen, and Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options for mobile data) hides your IP from known trackers in Mail and Safari. Apple's own description is exactly that narrow: ordinary websites still see your real address.
iCloud Private Relay (Settings > your name > iCloud > Private Relay, part of iCloud+) is the one that changes the public address. Safari traffic, DNS lookups and unencrypted app traffic go through two relays, and websites see a relay address instead of yours. Under IP Address Location, Maintain general location gives you a relay address near your city; Use country and time zone gives one somewhere in your country. Either way the address is still in your country: Private Relay is not a VPN and cannot make you appear elsewhere. With it on, CheckMyIP shows an Apple relay address and the proxy and VPN check labels it as a relay.
How to change your iPhone's IP address
Which address you want to change decides the method.
- Local Wi-Fi address: tap Renew Lease on the Wi-Fi details screen, or set Configure IP to Manual and type an address outside the router's DHCP range. Most people never need to.
- Public address on Wi-Fi: it belongs to the router, so restart the router. Some providers hand back the same address; some issue a new one. On a static business line it never changes.
- Public address on cellular: Airplane mode on, wait ten seconds, Airplane mode off. Carriers reassign addresses on reconnect.
- Hide it from websites: a VPN replaces the public address with the VPN server's for every app; Private Relay does it for Safari. Run the VPN test afterwards to confirm nothing leaks.
The full options, including when a provider will and will not give you a new address, are in How to change your IP address.
Questions
Where is my IP address on my phone?
On an iPhone, Settings > Wi-Fi > (i) next to the connected network > IP Address. That is the local Wi-Fi address. The public address, the one anything on the internet sees, is not in Settings on any phone; open the CheckMyIP homepage in Safari to see it. On cellular, the Shortcuts action Get Current IP Address shows both.
Do iPhones have their own IP addresses?
Yes, every iPhone has an address on whatever network it is connected to, and it changes with the network: one at home, another at work, another on cellular. What an iPhone does not have is a permanent, personal IP that follows it around. Websites see the public address of the network you are on, shared with every other device using it, not an address unique to the phone.
Can an IP address be traced on an iPhone?
Only to the network, not to the phone or its owner. A lookup on your public address shows the carrier or internet provider and an approximate area, usually the city or region. Linking that address to a specific customer requires the provider's records, which it releases only under legal process. iCloud Private Relay or a VPN replaces the address websites see with one belonging to the relay.
Can you trace a cell phone's IP address to a location?
Roughly, and often wrongly. Cellular addresses are shared through carrier-grade NAT and geolocate to the carrier's gateway, which may be hundreds of kilometers from the phone. Country is usually right; city is a guess. Nobody can obtain a phone's live position from its IP address, which is why location sharing in iOS uses GPS and explicit permission instead.
Why does my iPhone show the same IP as my laptop?
Because both are behind the same router and share its public address. The local addresses differ (the phone might be 192.168.1.37 and the laptop 192.168.1.52), but everything leaving the house carries the router's single public address. That is network address translation at work, and it is why a website cannot tell which device in a home visited it.