My iPad's MAC address seems to have changed with the iPadOS 14 update. Is this normal?

Question

I was looking at my Ubiquiti UniFi controller webpage and noticed that my iPad Pro 10.5 was seen as a new device. I went to the Insights tab and saw that it has two entries, with two different MAC addresses.

Why has the MAC address changed? Does this sort of thing happen usually and I have only noticed it this time because of the UniFi controller webpage?

Answer 1

Shortly after posting the question, I found out that there is a new feature in iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS that changes the MAC address to an individual private one for every wifi network. I think I will be turning it off for my own wifi networks.

It seems to be turned on by default.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211227