How to stop Apple devices from getting incremental numbers on their names?

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All my Apple devices seem to get incremental numbers after their names.

e.g. iPhone (4), MacBook (127), etc. (They all have unique names, I just used the product names here as an example).

I read around and there seems to be some indication that it’s related to DHCP, though I’m not entirely sure how. Even though it’s most likely a client-side issue (on the devices), apparently not all routers will trigger this behaviour.

Does anyone know of a way to avoid this?

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Probably related to MAC randomization.

You can turn that off on the device for known/trusted networks.

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It’s already off on all devices. :expressionless:

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I think this can be solved by giving out a static lease for affected devices MAC address and by disabling MAC randomization (for the home network)…

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Cheers, like I said above MAC randomisation is already off.

Static leases do seem to help as a workaround which probably means something in DHCP is causing the problem to begin with.