The quintessential question when family or friends come to visit is probably, “What’s the Wi-Fi password?” And, if you’re as forgetful as me, or if you fancy long and unnecessarily complicated passwords, the answer to that question is probably an ensuing headache.
However, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. you may pretty easily share Wi-Fi passwords using Bluetooth for Apple devices, and QR codes for Android devices. For Windows computers, it is as simple as pulling out the Control Panel to reveal your Wi-Fi password.
While you may’t directly share your Wi-Fi password in Windows operating systems, you can still view the passwords of the networks you are connected to. Then, it is just a simple matter of inputting that password on the device you want to connect to the network.
As you’ve noticed, the above method only shows the password for the network your computer is actively connected to. If you want to view the passwords of other previously connected networks in your Windows computer, you will need to do so fromCommand Prompt.
If you want to share the WI-Fi password from a Mac computer, you may simply do so via Bluetooth. However, this method is only exclusive to Apple devices like Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
If you want to share your Wi-Fi password with other devices like Windows or Android phones, you will need to look up the Wi-Fi password in your Mac computer and input it into the device you want to connect to the network.
Sharing Wi-Fi passwords from Android devices is surprisingly convenient. you may share your Wi-Fi password from most Android devices by generating a QR code that can be scanned to connect to that network.
While sharing the password of your active Wi-Fi network is available on almost all Android phones, you may’t do the same for your saved networks. In fact, only some Android phones support the capability to share passwords of saved networks. Nonetheless, you can verify if your Android phone does have this capability.
Additionally, if you want to view the password of your Wi-Fi on your Android device, you may do so byscanning the QR codefrom third-party QR scanner applications.
As long as you’re sharing Wi-Fi passwords between Apple devices, they use pretty much the same method as shown above in sharing Wi-Fi passwords from Mac. If you want to do the same but from iOS devices, you may refer to theMac section for sharing passwords.
However, if you want to share Wi-Fi passwords from iOS devices to non-Apple devices, you will need to view your Wi-Fi password first, and manually enter it into the other device you want to connect to the network.
