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My Parental Controls cannot Find my son's new iPad
I signed up for the free trial of Parental Controls to see if I works for my family. So for I have loved it. My son receive a new iPad 9th generation for his birthday and I cannot locate this on th...
If the iPad is connected to WiFi and has internet, it has to be on Connected Devices somewhere. Probably with some goofy made up name that makes no sense. (Unless of course the Orbi app is defective, which many users claim to be the case.)
The issue with randomized MAC addresses is that they can change without warning. The whole point is to prevent "Big Brother" from learning about you by which WiFi access points it attached to and when. (aha, 8am at Starbucks. 12 noon at a bordello. 5pm at home... and so on. I am not sophisticated enough to understand if this is 'real' or rampant paranoia.)
If the randomized switch is on, then one day the iPad may show up with a different MAC address, and Parental Controls will not know about it.
My practice is to disable this 'feature' on my Apple, Android, and laptop devices. I like knowing which MAC address goes with which IP address.
Thanks for the response, but the device really doesn't show up in device manager - I'm looking at the ipad to see the current IP address, and that IP address is not showing on any devices in device manager on the app or the web console.