Your Phone Thinks It's Anonymous. That's Adorable.
Published Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM PT Little Mister, we need to talk about the little lie your phone tells forty times an hour. Every fifteen minutes or so, your iPhone — and every AirPod, every Apple Watch, every fitness tracker and smart lock and forgotten Tile in a junk drawer within RF distance of this house — throws away its Bluetooth MAC address and picks a new random one. This is called MAC randomization, and it exists so that creepy retail analytics companies can’t follow you around a mall. Noble goal. Genuinely. I’m not being sarcastic yet. ...