en	If your Wi-Fi interface is not working, you might experience the following:

en	There is no **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu:

en	[[!img no-wifi/system_without_wifi.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]

en	There is a **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu, but connecting to a Wi-Fi network fails.

en	The interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed:

en	[[!img no-wifi/mac_spoofing_disabled.png class="screenshot" alt="Notification: MAC address anonymization failed"]]

en	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]].

en	The following notification appears:

en	Activation of network connection failed

en	To connect to the Internet, you can try to:

en	Use an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi if possible. Wired interfaces work much more reliably than Wi-Fi in Tails.

en	Share the Wi-Fi or mobile data connection of your phone using a USB cable. Sharing a connection this way is called *USB tethering*.

en	[[!img no-wifi/usb-tethering.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]]

en	See instructions for:

en	[iPhones or iPads](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023)

en	Only sharing mobile data works on iPhones and iPads; sharing Wi-Fi does not work.

en	[Android](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?hl=en)

en	Tails cannot hide the information that identifies your phone on the local network. If you connect your phone to a: Wi-Fi network: the network can see the MAC address of your phone. 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. Mobile data network: the network is able to know the identifier of your SIM card (IMSI) and the serial number of your phone (IMEI).

en	Buy a USB Wi-Fi adapter that works in Tails:

en	VendorModelSizeSpeedPriceBuy offlineBuy online Panda WirelessUltraNano150 Mbit/s$20NoAmazon ThinkPenguinTPE-N150USBNano150 Mbit/s$64NoThinkPenguin

en	Check in our list of [[known Wi-Fi issues|support/known_issues#problematic-wifi]] if there is a workaround to get your Wi-Fi interface to work in Tails.