How did you verify if this was your iPhone's address? I assume you don't have a firewall installed on your iPhone? Hmm, other thing is your provider is doing some kind of filtering, NAT-ing, or other tomfoolery. What address did you get when it came back? Using should definitely give you the correct address? ![]() Unlike Android devices where you can get the IP that the telco assigned to the device, iOS does not present that information to the user (unless you jailbreak the device or have an App).Īlthough the address that whatismyip presents is not your real IP, it is the one that the external world recognizes so it suffices for most purposes. Actually several devices share that external IP address. The reason is that the current version of IP has a very limited number of available IP addresses, and all those million of devices cannot get public IP addresses (like the one you see in ). This is similar to the internal IP address that you have in your phone when connect to the house wireless, but if you check in you get the external IP address of your wireless router (You can check that those are different addresses). Telcos such AT&t, Verizon, Telefonica and similar assign a "private" IP address that is only valid in their network. ![]() ![]() In a 3G/4G network every device gets an IP address, but THAT's NOT the IP address that you see when going to sites like That's the address that the Telco presents to the external world, not the device IP address. Unfortunately the responses are not completely correct.
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