WiFi networks shared across devices?

iCloud Keychain shares wifi passwords across devices.

 

What about de-selecting Auto Join This Network under wifi?

 

This is cool! I didn't know that!!

 

This happened to me yesterday, I was out of town eating at a place not been to before, got my iPad on their wifi, put in the password...a minute later I open my iPhone and it's already on the wifi. I'm sure that if I bring my mac there it will automatically log in to their wifi also, as I have iCloud keychain enabled on all 3 devices (OS X 10.9 Mavericks on my macbook pro). It should work across all devices with your iCloud account that have keychain enabled. I find it convenient myself.

he means in Settings>Wi-Fi>Ask to Join Networks ...but, I don't think that will do it, as "known" networks will still be joined automatically.

Why don't you want your iPhone to use their wifi?

Options I can think of off the top of my head: 1) You could turn off wifi on the iPhone since you don't want to use wifi on it anyway. 2) You could turn off iCloud keychain for the iPhone.

Seems like it would be unnecessary for apple to add the option of being able to not join this wifi network for one device and not others, so, that's why I ask, why do you not want your iPhone on their wifi? I mean, it makes it easier, you don't have to type that password in for every device, just once, ya know?

 

Here's another reason someone might not want all devices to join a particular network: perhaps they have an older device that only connects to 2.4GHz wi-fi access points as well as a newer device that can connect to 2.4GHz or 5Ghz APs.If you use iCloud Keychain in its current form, your newer device may at times connect to the slower or more congested 2.4GHz AP--an undesirable situation.

Another example: you want your laptop to connect to a hotspot because wi-fi is its only means of communication, but do not want your iPhone/iPad to connect because they have LTE radio that happens to be faster and/or more reliable than this particular access point.

 

Maybe Siri can turn wifi on/off automatically?

alright, fine then, what about...

Anyone know if this is possible? (I know that OS X has "locations" for networks).

• Can you tell Siri to turn off wifi when you arrive at a location, then turn it back on when you leave?

 

I noticed the feature as well. I connected my new rMBP to my boyfriend's network, and my phone connected to it as well. Kind of a nice feature for home and work/school networks but maybe not for public hotspots.

 

that's what sucks about turning wifi off, got to remember to turn it back on.

I've seen a couple other threads on this, but not a major lash back, so, yeah, more of a minority use case, but still a valid one, and will only be more valid, as these kinds of situations will only increase.

I think the solution for you is to turn off iCloud Keychain for your mobile devices until Apple gives us some kind of option to prefer or not log in to certain networks for individual devices. We need to be able to set our wifi preferences according to location (make your suggestion here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html)

Also, at home, on that iPad, go to the 2.4GHz network (Settings>Wifi>(network name), click on the blue i in a circle on the right, and click on "Forget this Network". Be sure you have "Ask to Join Networks" turned off also.

 

Essentially, that's not a solution.

 

"Siri, remind me when I leave work to turn on WiFi"
"Siri, remind me when I arrive at work to turn off WiFi"

Go into reminders, set them to recur, job done.

That's what geofenced reminders are for.

Or of course, you could download Trigger and use NFC ta....... oh, maybe not lol

 

How is that not a solution? iCloud Keychain is new, only been available for weeks now, are you relying on it that much already?

If you turn off iCloud Keychain for the iPhone, then you can tell it to forget that wifi network, and, with ask to join networks turned off it won't connect automatically to that network anymore. Easiest solution IMO