How to Find Your IP Address on Android
Last updated July 4, 2026
To find your IP address on Android, open Settings → Network & internet → Internet (Connections → Wi-Fi on Samsung), tap the gear next to your connected network, and read the IP address under the network details. For your public IP, the one websites see, open our checker in any browser.
Android only surfaces the local (private) IP in its settings, never the public IP that the internet sees (public vs private IP addresses explains why you have both). Menu labels vary a little between Samsung (One UI), Google Pixel and other brands, so the steps below note the common variations.
Find your public IP address (instant)
Open Chrome and visit our What Is My IP Address tool. It instantly shows your public IPv4 and IPv6 address, location and ISP, the address every site and app sees, with no logging and nothing to install. Android has no built-in screen for this, so a checker is the simplest route.
Find your local IP address in Wi-Fi settings
- Open Settings.
- Tap Network & internet → Internet (or Connections → Wi-Fi on Samsung).
- Tap the gear ⚙ icon next to the network you are connected to.
- Expand Advanced / View more / Network details (newer Pixel) and read the IP address, usually
192.168.x.x.
Find your IP address via About phone
On Samsung and many other phones: Settings → About phone → Status information → IP address. Some Pixel and stock builds have removed the IP from this screen. If it's not there, use the Wi-Fi method above.
- Open Settings → About phone (or About device).
- Tap Status / Status information.
- Read the IP address entry, which may list both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address.
Your IP on mobile data
On mobile data the Wi-Fi screen won't show an address. To see the public IP your carrier assigned, load our IP checker with Wi-Fi turned off. Carriers commonly share one address among many users (CGNAT), so your mobile IP often differs from your home Wi-Fi one.
Find your IPv6 address on Android
The same network details screen lists your IPv6 addresses below the IPv4 one when the network supports IPv6,
and About phone → Status often shows them too. Seeing two or three is normal: Android keeps a stable address
plus rotating privacy addresses it prefers for outgoing traffic, and the fe80:: entry is
link-local only.
On mobile data, many carriers are IPv6-first or IPv6-only, reaching legacy IPv4 sites through translation. That means the public address websites see from your phone is frequently an IPv6 one. Our checker shows your public IPv4 and IPv6, whichever your connection actually uses.
Find your router's IP address (default gateway)
On Wi-Fi, the Gateway shown in the advanced network details is your router's address, commonly 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Our how to find your router's IP address guide covers every device.
Troubleshooting: wrong or confusing addresses
Your IP changes between connections. Android uses a randomized MAC address for each Wi-Fi network by default. Forget and rejoin a network, or let the phone rotate the MAC, and the router may treat it as a new device and hand out a new IP. MAC-based DHCP reservations break for the same reason; open the network's details and switch its privacy setting to Use device MAC if you need a stable identity.
Hotspot vs Wi-Fi confusion. When your phone runs a hotspot, it becomes the router: it hands out addresses
(typically 192.168.x.x) to your laptop, and its own gateway address is what the laptop sees. The phone's
internet still comes from cellular, so the public IP of every hotspot device is the carrier address, not anything from
the Wi-Fi settings screen.
Wrong location, or you can't host anything on mobile data. Carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT) puts thousands of customers behind one public address. Geolocation lands on the carrier's hub city, the address changes constantly, and incoming connections (port forwarding, game hosting) are impossible. That is a carrier design choice, not a phone problem.