IPad Wifi MAC address

Hi, somehow I screwed up the mac address thing. I didn't take note of my original mac address. How can I find back the original mac address and change it back?

The MAC address on your device doesn't and cannot change. What exactly are you trying to do?
To see your device's MAC address (again, this cannot change):
Settings/General/About
The MAC address will be listed here as "Wi-Fi Address" (they are the same thing, just using different terminology)

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