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If your Wi-Fi interface is not working, you might experience the following:
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There is no **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu:
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[[!img no-wifi/system_without_wifi.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt=""]]
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There is a **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu, but connecting to a Wi-Fi network fails.
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The interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed:
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[[!img no-wifi/mac_spoofing_disabled.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt="Notification: MAC address anonymization failed"]]
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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]].
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The following notification appears:
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Activation of network connection failed
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To connect to the Internet, you can try to:
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Use an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi if possible. Wired interfaces work much more reliably than Wi-Fi in Tails.
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Share the Wi-Fi or mobile data connection of your phone using a USB cable. Sharing a connection this way is called *USB tethering*.
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[[!img no-wifi/usb-tethering.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]]
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See instructions for:
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[iPhones or iPads](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023)
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Only sharing mobile data works on iPhones and iPads; sharing Wi-Fi does not work.
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[Android](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?hl=en)
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<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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