If you live in a dorm room or other shared living environment where you need to give the system administrator the MAC address of any device added to the network then knowing the MAC address of your Apple TV is critical.

Same thing if youve configured your router with a MAC whitelist or you want to assign static IPs to each device on your network.

Because the information about the IP and MAC addresses is located within the system menus of the Apple TV you cannot check it until the initial setup is complete.

Once the initial setup is complete you can check it any time but not until that point.

One quick and dirty work around would be to grab a smartphone that can serve as a mobile access point such as an iPhone and, temporarily, setup and configure your Apple TV using that phone as a Wi-Fi access point.

In the About menu not only will you see information like your devices model number, serial number, and what version of tvOS youre running, youll also see what network the device is connected to, the IP address, and the Wi-Fi Address or Ethernet Address depending on what kind of network youre connected to.

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