iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2020-12-07 11:52:01
Has this solution been implemented? Will it be implemented soon?
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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2020-12-22 16:38:01 - last edited 2020-12-22 16:39:38

TP Link team - This needs to be fixed urgently!

 

There needs to be a default profile for any new device that connects to the network. This is a security hole regardless of the "private address" feature of iOS 14.

 

Even my Windows 10 Home PC has this feature. 

 

 

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-01-24 03:23:19 - last edited 2021-01-24 03:23:59

 

I worked around this limitation by:
1. Turning off private addresses on all the iPads and iPhones for our home network and took a note of the actual device MAC of every device.

2. Switching the network to Whitelist mode in Advanced -> Security -> Access Control and then added all the devices in the house with their actual MAC address.

 

This way, only devices that have been added by me can be connected and I can now control them properly with the normal Parental Controls.

 

If the kids turn on private addresses again, they simply cannot connect to the network at all.

 

it also increased the security of the network in general because you can't just have random devices connect.

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-01-24 04:17:48

@PatrickB123 I don't see any Security option under Advanced in the Deco app that I have downloaded from the App store. What app are you using?

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-01-24 05:31:41

@dfb 

Sorry, i just saw that the thread was specific to the Deco system. I had the same problem on my Archer VR2100 WIFI DSL router and my solution is for that.

I'm not using an app or anything. I'm logging directly into the router.

 

When I log into my WiFi router, I get the menu below. That allows me to whitelist devices.

I had assumed that all TP-Link devices would have a similar operating system and menu structure.

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-01-28 13:41:18

@PatrickB123 That's good to know, but won't help with some routers. Deco X20 has rudimentary web interface allowing only to check its status and update firmware, and there's no Whitelist setting in the Deco app.

 

TP-Link, please do something about the issue.

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-01-29 07:34:45

@Kopfschmerzen 

Thanks for your patience.

We have recorded all the feedback here about the web UI and whitelist and they would be forwarded to the senior engineers for further evaluation.

Thank you very much for your understanding and support.

 

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-02-02 23:47:53
+1 for this priority.. actually thinking of replacing my Decos. Kids at a difficult age in their early teens. Bedtime is a must, and the Time based controls don’t work at all right now. Other consumer routers have been doing MAC whitelisting since the 1990s, would gladly trade all the age based filtering for a working time control.
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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-04-11 08:07:27

@Terminator extremely frustrating that TPLINK Has left this gap in it's parental controls feature,

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Re:iOS14 and iPadOS14 WiFi - Private Address setting circumvents parental controls and possibly QOS
2021-04-11 08:08:58

@TP-Link_Deco Very poor solution as it can be bypassed very easily by children using the toggle feature on their own iOS device which is not

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