How to Find your Mac's IP address

Internal Protocol address is a number that can be used to identify and associated with every computer or network. If you want to connect any network hardware to the internet, an IP address will allow you to do that.

An IP address is also used to track a network hardware network’s location, that is why some people prefer to use VPN to hide their IP address to remain incognito.

In case you are unable to find or you want to find your Mac’s IP address. You have probably landed on the right post. Let’s quickly head towards our main topic to find your Mac’s IP address.

We also have covered how you can hide your IP address using a VPN, so make sure to read the article till the end.

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Find IP address using Mac OS X Terminal

We are going to find your Mac’s IP address via Terminal, to do so, users need to do the following:

Step 1: Go to Applications, and click on Utilities.

Step 2: Now, open Terminal.

Step 3: Once the Terminal window is opened, type the following command, and press return.

ifconfig |grep inet

Step 4: Then, you will get to see some codes as mentioned below:

inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::fa1e:dfff:feea:d544%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.0.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

Here, the last entry of inet consists of your IP address that is (192.168.0.200).

IP address mostly starts from 192.168.X.XX.

Find IP Address using Mac System Preferences

This the easiest way to get your IP address on your Mac. Follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Click on the Apple menu, and go to System Preferences.

Here’s How To Find Your Mac’s Ip Address

Step 2: Now, visit the Network preferences pane.

Step 3: You IP address will appear on the network configuration screen.

As per the image attached above, 192.168.0.100 is the IP address.

Now, you have to know how you find your IP address. If you are a privacy lover like me, who prefers to hide your IP address, you must know how to do it.

Google knows your location through IP address, but you can be incognito by using VPN (Virtual Private Network). This allows replacing your IP address with another Virtual Private Number.

So that, your IP address will remain hidden. Let’s see how to hide your IP address.

How to hide your IP address using a VPN on Mac

Here, we are using Shimo to hide IP addresses using VPN on Mac. In case, if you wish to use Shimo, then you have to download it before following the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Click on the menu bar of Shimo.

Step 2: Now, Add your VPN Account.

Step 3: Select any available VPN options, or you can with premium service with special offers such as tigerVPN.

Step 4: Click on Create.

Shimo provides a good VPN service for Mac, you can check out the free trial. But they provide more decent services with the paid version.

You are free to use any VPN service to hide your IP address on Mac. But make sure to use a good one.

Conclusion

It’s good to know your IP address, it always comes in hand when there’s a particular need for it.

Also, Google can track your location using your IP address. So hiding your IP address is always a good option using a VPN.

That’s it for now, hope this helps! If you have queries, you can mention them in the comment section below.