MyIP.dogFind your IP address for the task in front of you
The fastest way to find your IP address as seen by this website is to open the public IP checker on the device and connection you want to inspect. When you find your IP address here, the result appears at the top of the page, with its source and observation time. For a local address used by a printer, router or another device on your network, open the device's network settings instead.
You can find your IP address without creating an account or installing software. What matters is choosing the right kind of address. A website observes the source of a request arriving over the internet. Your device settings describe its own interfaces. A home router, provider gateway, VPN or relay can make those observations differ while both remain correct.
Choose where to find your IP address
Use this task-based starting point before copying a value:
- For an internet support ticket or a remote allowlist, find your IP address through the same browser and network involved in the problem, then confirm which source the remote service needs.
- For a local printer, file share or router investigation, inspect the active interface in device settings and keep the subnet and gateway nearby.
- For an IPv6 reachability question, use the IPv6 test, which reports protocol-specific observations rather than inferring support from a single result.
- For a website's server address, query its hostname with DNS lookup. That is a different question from identifying your own connection.
This distinction prevents a common mistake: pasting a private home-network value into a form that expects a public source. Before you find your IP address for someone else, ask whether they mean the client, the router, the VPN interface or the address visible in their service logs. A precise question helps you find your IP address for the intended purpose and usually produces a faster fix.
Find your IP address on Windows
Open Settings, choose Network & internet, and inspect the properties of the connected Wi-Fi or Ethernet network. For a command-line view, run ipconfig in Command Prompt. Keep the relevant adapter name with the result. The Windows walkthrough includes Settings, Command Prompt and PowerShell methods with links to Microsoft's documentation.
When you find your IP address on a Windows laptop with a dock, VPN or virtual machines, several adapter sections can be normal. A disconnected adapter does not describe the current internet path. Use the public checker separately if the question concerns an internet service, and avoid changing IP assignment simply to read an existing value.
Find your IP address on a Mac
Open the Apple menu, choose System Settings, select Network and the active connection, then open Details and TCP/IP. The Mac walkthrough explains the fields and read-only Terminal alternatives. Older macOS releases can use different settings labels, so match the installed version when consulting Apple's instructions.
You may find your IP address differs between Safari and another application if privacy relays or application routing affect the requests. Record the application and connection context rather than assuming a mismatch means the settings are broken. A Wi-Fi interface address, a VPN interface address and a public relay exit describe different points along a connection.
Find your IP address on an iPhone
For local Wi-Fi details, open Settings, then Wi-Fi, then the information button beside the connected network. For a public observation, open the checker in the browser. Follow the iPhone walkthrough to distinguish Wi-Fi, cellular, VPN and Private Relay behavior. The Private Wi-Fi Address control concerns a MAC identifier, not the public result.
If you find your IP address while using cellular and compare it with an earlier Wi-Fi result, a difference is expected. You changed the network providing the connection. Keep the active SIM, browser and privacy settings in your notes when those details matter. A phone does not have one permanent public value that must remain the same everywhere.
Find your IP address on other devices
On Android, start with the connected Wi-Fi network's details in Settings; manufacturers use different menu names. The Android walkthrough explains the address field and the separate Wi-Fi MAC identifier. On Linux, ip address show provides a local interface view where the iproute2 utilities are installed. Follow the Linux walkthrough for terminal commands and graphical alternatives. Neither method requires sending your local configuration to an unknown website.
To find your IP address on a television, console or printer, inspect its Network, Connection status or equivalent screen and consult the manufacturer's instructions for that model. To find your IP address for one of these devices, do not simply reuse the number shown by your laptop. The devices may share a public IPv4 exit while retaining different local values, interfaces or protocol support.
What to copy when you find your IP address
When you find your IP address, copy it completely, preserving every IPv6 group and colon. A shortened visual label or a screenshot with the final characters cut off is not a complete result. Also note the family, source, connection type and time. Those details let someone distinguish a local settings observation from an internet request and compare like with like.
After you find your IP address, classify unfamiliar notation before trying to fix it. Dotted decimal usually indicates IPv4; colon-separated notation indicates IPv6. Values such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1 are loopback. Familiar private ranges belong to local networking. The IP lookup tool can explain address syntax and scope without pretending that a private value has a globally identifiable owner.
Why two ways to find your IP address disagree
NAT allows several local IPv4 devices to use one public exit. A provider may add another translation layer. VPNs and relays can introduce different public exits. IPv4 and IPv6 can also follow different routes. These mechanisms explain why two accurate observations can return different values; an address mismatch alone is not enough to diagnose a leak or a fault.
To investigate, find your IP address twice with the same method, browser, network and protocol family. Then change one condition deliberately and repeat. Record what changed. A comparison between yesterday's phone on cellular and today's laptop on Wi-Fi has too many moving parts to isolate a cause. Controlled observations are more useful than collecting many unexplained screenshots.
When you cannot find your IP address
A browser check may fail because the connection is offline, a captive portal requires attention, a test service is unavailable or a filter blocks the request. Read the reported error and verify ordinary browsing before changing network settings. Failure to reach one endpoint does not establish that every protocol is unavailable or that a VPN is secure.
If local settings show an unexpected value, confirm the active adapter first. A link-local address has a different meaning from a private assignment supplied by a router. To find your IP address during an outage, preserve those local details even when the public test cannot run. They can help a network operator distinguish an assignment problem from a remote service problem.
Find your IP address with appropriate expectations
When you find your IP address, you learn about a network observation, not a person's exact physical location. Registration data can identify an address allocation, and geolocation may estimate a region, but neither automatically reveals the handset, household or account behind the request. The location troubleshooting guide explains why a city label can be wrong.
A method to find your IP address also does not test open ports, service availability or the quality of a firewall. Keep the scope of the result tied to the method used. The most useful outcome is to find your IP address, label it correctly and give the next tool or support team the evidence it actually needs. You can do that while leaving a working network configuration unchanged.