iOS 26 Adds a Useful New Wi-Fi Feature to Your iPhone

iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adhd a smaller yet utile Wi-Fi diagnostic to iPhones and iPads.


As spotted by Creative Strategies expert Max Weinbach, sign-in details for captive Wi-Fi networks are present synced crossed iPhones and iPads moving iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. For example, portion Weinbach was staying astatine a Hilton hotel, his iPhone prompted him to capable successful Wi-Fi details from his iPad that was already connected to the hotel's network.

A captive Wi-Fi web is the benignant that requires you to capable retired a web signifier earlier gaining access. They are commonly recovered astatine hotels, gyms, java shops, airports, and immoderate different nationalist places. With this caller feature, which apt extends to macOS 26 too, it volition beryllium quicker and easier to link aggregate Apple devices to these networks.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman was archetypal to report that Apple was readying this feature, which was not mentioned during the WWDC 2025 keynote past month. MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris aboriginal discovered references to it wrong the codification for the archetypal iOS 26 developer beta. It was believed that the diagnostic was not functional yet, but evidently it is. According to an earlier post, it seems that Weinbach had installed the 2nd iOS 26 developer beta.

iOS 26 volition apt beryllium released successful September, bringing this useful enactment to the masses.


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