Sharing your Wi-Fi password from your phone or computer is a much easier alternative to reading your password out loud or even requiring your visiting guest to read it off a screen or piece of paper.

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Your Windows PC stores the credentials for each Windows computer’s Wi-Fi network. Examples include the current Wi-Fi network and any previous networks used to ...

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With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Forgetting your Wi-Fi password is ...

Remembering Wi-Fi passwords — especially ones that are long combinations of letters, numbers, and special characters — is hard. Lucky for you, that's all in the past. Apple has added a new feature in ...

Any time you have friends or family visiting your home, you're likely to get asked what your Wi-Fi password is. A truly secured Wi-Fi network may have a password made up of a randomization of upper ...

Setting complex Wi-Fi passwords is one of the most effective ways to secure your network from unauthorized access. However, the downside of having a strong, intricate password is that it can be easy ...

If you’ve ever been in a public place and needed to connect to a Wi-Fi network, you know how inconvenient it can be to try and get into the network without the WiFi password readily posted or publicly ...