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Removing a secondary Wi-Fi interface on macOS sequoia

May 2025

In the macOS network settings, you can add a second Wi-Fi interface. This can be used to e.g. configure a static IP and a dynamic IP from DHCP at the same time.

secondary wi-fi interface in mac os network settings

However on macOS sequoia, you can't remove this network interface using the user interface once you no longer need it. I've found this way to remove it via the terminal:

  1. Open Terminal.app
  2. Type networksetup -listallnetworkservices and press enter.
  3. A list of network interfaces should be printed. Somewhere, a interface similar to Wi-Fi 2 should be listed. The name might not exactly match the name shown in the network settings. For example, I get WLAN 2 in the network settings, but Wi-Fi 2 from the command. Note the exact name from the command.
  4. Next, execute sudo networksetup -removenetworkservice "_name of interface_" where you insert the exact name of the interface noted above, in my case this would be sudo networksetup -removenetworkservice "Wi-Fi 2"
  5. The network device should be removed.