Share Wi-Fi password in an instant, new feature in iOS 11

More and more we are discovering iOS functionalities that make our lives easier. One of them is the new QR reader that is fully integrated into the camera, thus focusing on the code found in most routers on the market, we will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi we want. But Apple has decided to make it even easier for us.

What happens if you are sitting on the couch with your friends and they ask for your Wi-Fi password? Well, you will never have to spell it out again, what an annoying way. Apple has planned in iOS 11 a system that will allow us to share the Wi-Fi password with our friends automatically, learn how it is shared with us.

The mechanism is simple, like everything Apple thinks for us. When we have stored a password for an SSID in question, or we are connected to that network, we simply have to tell the user in question to connect to the same network. When it tries to connect and is in the step of entering the password, a notice will jump on the screen that will ask us to share the password with our partner.

It is easy, we just have to authorize it and this user will see how, without knowing the exact password, the field will be filled in automatically and will connect. We do not know exactly what the requirement is, we imagine that at least we must have it in our agenda synchronized with iCloud so that iOS can detect it as a companion. Although it may simply work as AirDrop, with all users regardless of whether they are our contacts or not (as long as we have it configured). Be that as it may it's a real relief now that Wi-Fi passwords tend to be so complicated, you can share it in a second.