How to Find a Wi-Fi Password on your iPhone (iOS 16)
To find the password on an iPhone with iOS 16, follow these steps:
How to Share Wi-Fi Password on iOS 11 through iOS 15
You may not be able to look up your Wi-Fi password on your iPhone, but there’s an easy way to share the password with a friend. As long as you’re both running iOS 11 and up (this works on Macs running macOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher, too), sharing a Wi-Fi password is a matter of just a few steps. To use this feature, there are a few requirements you need to meet:
Both devices need to be running iOS 11 or later. Your friend’s Apple ID must be in your Contacts app. Bluetooth must be enabled on both your device and your friend’s device.
With those requirements met, here’s what you need to do:
How to Find the Wi-Fi Password for Your Personal Hotspot
You have additional options if you use Personal Hotspot. Personal Hotspot is a feature of the iOS that lets you share your iPhone’s cellular data connection with other nearby devices over Wi-Fi. In that case, other people near you who want to get online via your iPhone just need your Personal Hotspot password to connect to Wi-Fi. When you use Personal Hotspot, your iPhone functions like the Wi-Fi router in your home. In that case, finding your Personal Hotspot password is easy. Just follow these steps:
How to See a Wi-Fi Password Using iCloud Keychain on a Mac
You may not know it, but your iPhone is packed full of saved passwords that you use for websites, apps, and Wi-Fi networks. These passwords are saved in the Keychain, a program stores your login information and helps you by auto-filling them into login forms. If you have a Mac, you can view Wi-Fi passwords using iCloud Keychain. iCloud Keychain is similar to Keychain, except that it stores your usernames in your iCloud account, rather than on your Mac or iPhone. Login info stored in iCloud can be synced to your iCloud-compatible devices. That means that a Wi-Fi password saved on your iPhone can be viewed on a Mac. Here’s how:
How to Look Up Your Wi-Fi Password in Router Settings
Another way to use your iPhone to find a Wi-Fi password is by going straight to the source: your Wi-Fi router. This isn’t quite the same as finding the Wi-Fi password on your iPhone, but it gets you the information you need. In this case, you’re going right to the source—the Wi-Fi router—to get the password. All Wi-Fi routers let you log into them to check and change settings like the password. Here’s what to do:
Where Is the Password on My iPhone, Anyway?
You can’t look up a Wi-Fi network password directly on your iPhone unless your iPhone is jailbroken and running apps that specifically let you do that. That’s because Apple doesn’t include the option all the way through iOS 15, even if you have the password saved in your Keychain. The good news is that the iOS 16 does include the ability to access the password for the Wi-Fi network you’re currently connected to. There are also some other options for looking up passwords on your iPhone.
