Option 1: Find Your Saved Wi-Fi Passwords in iOS 16 The change also appears in iPadOS 16.1 for iPad, which was released on Oct. Now it's just as easy to find and reveal plain text passwords for all your saved Wi-Fi networks on your iPhone as it has been on Android for years.

That all changed with Apple's iOS 16 update. Full Details: How to Instantly Share Wi-Fi Passwords from Your iPhone to Other Nearby Apple Devices.Your iPhone would let you share a saved hotspot's password to another device attempting to connect to the network in question, but only with other Apple devices. While iOS 15 and older software versions would remember Wi-Fi passwords for all the wireless access points you successfully connected to, there was no obvious way to retrieve a network's unobfuscated password. Wi-Fi passwords are saved to your iPhone so you can auto-connect to the router or personal hotspot again, but finding the plain text password for a network hasn't always been easy. Your iPhone goes with you pretty much everywhere you go, and unless you have unlimited data on your cellular plan, you've probably connected to dozens of Wi-Fi hotspots over the years.