Passwords App on iPhone: Managed Wi-Fi networks cannot be forgotten. The selected Wi-Fi network will not be forgotten.

[Quotenfrau]

Hi

On new Passwords App on iPhone I get this error

Managed Wi-Fi networks cannot be forgotten. The selected Wi-Fi network will not be forgotten.

Some years ago it was a company phone.
But some years ago I transferred it to private owned phone.

How-To remove this WLAN?

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Might be in a Profile. Check Settings > General > Profiles?

 

[Quotenfrau]

No, there are none Profiles.

 

[Brian1]

Sometimes carriers add networks for your phone to auto join. This is popular with Spectrum and Xfinity Mobile especially. Do you know for sure this SSID is a work related one?

 

[Quotenfrau]

Yes it's exactly such a type of network. Thank you

 

[GuruGuy]

In settings, wifi, edit; is the same ssid listed there too and if so, can you delete it. Sometimes you just have to turn off the auto join and live with it being there (some carriers remain here even if you swap carriers).

 

[GuruGuy]

I was looking at a family members phone today and noticed this exact same thing. It’s in the new passwords app inside the WiFi settings. An old carrier that has been long replaced about three years ago, their WiFi connection is still in there with no way to get rid of it that I can find.

 

[Brian1]

I was looking at a family members phone today and noticed this exact same thing. It’s in the new passwords app inside the WiFi settings. An old carrier that has been long replaced about three years ago, their WiFi connection is still in there with no way to get rid of it that I can find.

Did they remove the old eSIM or physical SIM card when they switched?

 

[GuruGuy]

Did they remove the old eSIM or physical SIM card when they switched?

Yep, and it's not even the same device. Carried over to the new phone.

 

[Brian1]

Yep, and it's not even the same device. Carried over to the new phone.

A very strange workaround that did the trick for me once: if you have an old router laying around, briefly broadcast that same SSID but with no security. Connect to it on the phone, then immediately forget it and it should disappear from the saved networks list. Then be sure to unplug/reset that router to shut down the unsecured network.

 

[zorinlynx]

Yes it's exactly such a type of network. Thank you

Ahh. You don't have to remove those networks, you can just turn off Auto-Join. that's what I did for mine and it stopped trying to join those (usually broken) AT&T Passpoint WiFis.

I honestly don't get it; if carriers want to offload cellular traffic onto their WiFi access points, they should keep them running well and the connection should be at least as fast as cellular. So often I'm at a mall, notice my connection sucks, realize I'm on one of those Wifis and the problem goes away when I switch it off.