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Nighthawk App
I spoke to Netgear on the phone and they told me is was some new app update they would be rolling out soon. That was a year ago, so I cant get a clear answer from them.
(I believe that...) Apple was the first major vendor to offer a means to shield customers from being "tracked" by using a different MAC address for every WiFi network they connect to. This feature wreaks havoc on systems that use the MAC address to control access. These days, Android, Apple, and many laptops default to making up MAC addresses for WiFi connections and customers have to go into the settings and deliberately choose to use the hardware MAC address.
Here's the setting on my Samsung Galaxy S24:
Being a bit OCD, I want my devices to get the same IP address every time they connect and I went to a lot of effort to use the LAN Setup table to assign them. It is really annoying (to me) that every time one of our phones or tablets updates software, the setting is put back to "randomize" and devices start showing up with weird IP assignments. I have to go in and change the setting on the phone/tablet/laptop, etc.
Yeah I've got settings like that as well to keep the same IP on most of my devices, not all though. However, if the Nighthawk iOS app UI was the newer, dark mode, grouped by Wi-Fi band, and only showing active devices, I wouldn't need to worry about it. Do you know how to force this UI refresh? Any ideas how to get Netgear to give me a usable method or at least answer? Im not sure I understand why I have the latest software for both the app and iOS, but I don't see the newer UI.
Maybe they roll it out to select users over time?