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If your Wi-Fi interface is not working, you might experience the following:
There is no **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu:
[[!img first_steps/desktop/system_without_wifi.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]
There is a **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu, but connecting to a Wi-Fi network fails.
The interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed:
[[!img no-wifi/mac_spoofing_disabled.png class="screenshot" alt="Notification: MAC address anonymization failed"]]
In this case, you can disable MAC address anonymization in the Welcome
Screen. Doing so has security implications, so read carefully our
[[documentation about MAC address
anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]].
The following notification appears:
Activation of network connection failed
To connect to the Internet, you can try to:
Use an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi if possible. Wired interfaces work much more reliably than Wi-Fi in Tails.
Share the Wi-Fi or mobile data connection of your phone using a USB cable. Sharing a connection this way is called *USB tethering*.
[[!img no-wifi/usb-tethering.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]]
See instructions for:
[iPhones or iPads](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023)
Only sharing mobile data works on iPhones and iPads; sharing Wi-Fi does not work.
[Android](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?hl=en)
<div class="caution">
<p>Tails cannot hide the information that identifies your phone on the local
network. If you connect your phone to a:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Wi-Fi network: the network can see the MAC
address of your phone.</p>
<p>This has security implications that we explain in our [[documentation on
MAC address anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]]. Some
phones have a feature to hide the MAC address of the phone.</p></li>
<li><p>Mobile data network: the network is able to know the identifier of
your SIM card (IMSI) and the serial number of your phone (IMEI).</p></li>
</ul>
</div>
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String age
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Last updated
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