Originally Posted by uptick
Is there a way to see a list of all the WiFi access points "remembered" in the iPhone and manage that list?
It seems the only way to selectively "forget" or delete from memory a WiFi AP is to be currently connected to it. Suppose I want to forget a particular WiFi hot spot at some airport or hotel I visited some thousands of miles away?
As a matter of security, does the iPhone "remember" (and therefore automatically join) access points merely by the SSID name, or by access point MAC address (or some other unique AP ID)? My concern is how does the iPhone discern a
trusted "Public Hot Spot" from a
malicious "Public Hot Spot" (since the SSID is the SAME)???
Don't know any way to see and delete previously connect networks, but would agree that would be nice to do (I occasionally "clean" my laptop of unused WiFi networks).
As far as how it remembers WiFi networks, in my brief testing it seemed to only use SSID. I had previously connected to a "Linksys" (just a little common!) unprotected WLAN and when I was in a different area it connected to another Linksys SSID without asking.
Obviously it wouldn't have auto-connected if these WLANs were protected. But I don't know if it would have allowed two WLANs with identical SSIDs yet different security keys to be saved independently. I doubt it though.
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Mike