Change Your IP Address in Tor: 4 Steps to Hide Your Location

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When you first open Tor, you're prompted to connect to the Tor network. This connects you to a relay and assigns you a browsing IP address that's different than your current home, work, or school IP address. If you just want to browse the web from a new IP address, this is all you'll need to do to get one! But if you're already using Tor and want an IP address that's different from the one you were assigned upon connecting, you can create a new Tor identity. This wikiHow article teaches you how to generate a new IP address using the Tor web browser.

Steps

Open Tor on your computer. You'll find it in your Windows Start menu or your Mac's Launchpad. If you haven't already connected to Tor for a session, click Connect when prompted. This assigns you a new IP. If you already have a website open and want to change your IP address, read on.

Click the hamburger menu ☰. It's at the top-right corner of Tor.

Click New Identity. Choose this option if you want a new IP address everywhere on Tor and don't want your previous activity to be linked to the new IP address. A pop-up window will appear, warning you that Tor will close all windows and tabs. If you have any downloads in progress, they'll be stopped as well. If you just want a new IP address for the site you have open now, not everywhere on Tor, select New Tor Circuit for this site from the menu instead. Once Tor acquires a new IP for the site, it will refresh the current tab so you're loading it from your new IP address. Any tabs open to the same site will also refresh to the new IP address once you activate them, but other websites and active downloads won't be affected.

Click Yes to restart. Tor will shut down and re-open, acquiring a new IP address during the process. Now that you have a new IP, the sites you visit will see this IP rather than your previous one. If you want to specify which country your IP address is in, you can specify a region using Strict Nodes.