This tutorial, into 2 parts

  1. Find Mac Address
  2. Change Mac Address

Finding MAC Address in Macintosh OS X using System Preferences

Step 1) Go to System Preferences.

Click on Network

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Step 2) In the Network menu

Click on the Advanced button.

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Step 3) Go to Hardware tab.

You can see the MAC address of your MacOS.

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Finding MAC Address in Macintosh OS X using Terminal

Here are the ways to find MAC address in Macintosh OS X:

Step 1) Open the Terminal application from Launchpad

Type ifconfig and get your Mac address.

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Find Mac Address Using the Toolbar

Here are the ways to find MAC address in Macintosh OS X:

Step 1) Press Option (Alt) key and click on the Wi-Fi icon available in the toolbar.

You will see the Wi-Fi address.

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How to Change the MAC Address?

Here is the way how you can change the MAC address in MacOS:

In order to change the MAC address

Step 1) Click "option" key and then click the Wi-Fi symbol.

You can check the interface name. In the below diagram you can see it is "en0".

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Step 2) Go to Terminal, and write the below command:

openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'

It will show you a new hexadecimal number that can be used as a MAC address.

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Step 3) Disconnect from your current Wi-Fi network connection.

By clicking down "option", pressing on the Wi-Fi icon, which is available in the menu bar and clicking on "disconnect".

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Step 4) Go to terminal.

Write

sudo ifconfig en0 ether  <MAC address>

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Step 5) You have now changed your MAC address.

Connect to your WiFi network and verify your MAC address one more time.