How to Find Your iPhone’s IP Address

Each iPhone has a unique IP address. It is an identifier that allows transferring information to and from your device through a Wi-Fi connection. If this sounds confusing to you, think about it as your iPhone’s home mailing address. The IP address is just as a physical address, but it routes to your iPhone’s memory. Digital information comes to your device’s storage through that address. Each device that can connect to the internet has a unique IP address.

There may be specific situations when you will need to find the IP address of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Here is how to do that.

How to Find Your iPhone’s IP Address?

The procedure for finding your iPhone’s IP address is pretty simple. However, you will need to repeat it anytime you want to SSH into your device. Here are the detailed steps.

Step # 1 Settings App

Open the Settings app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

Step # 2 Tap Wi-Fi

Find the Wi-Fi section and tap on it.

Step # 3 Select your network

If it isn’t already selected. Now, tap on the blue “i” icon next to your network’s name.

Step # 4 View IP Address

Now you will see a page that displays various information. The second field in the IPV4 ADDRESS section is IP Address. And, the number in that field is your iPhone’s IP address. It should be something like this: 10.0.2.25. Siple, does it?

Knowing your iDevice’s IP address is useful for a variety of things. You can use it to adjust the bandwidth settings on a router, transfer files directly to your device, use SSH to connect to an iPhone.