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This was a good feature. Thankfully it still exists in iOS. Just requires approval.

The iOS implementation of this feature is perfect.

It isn't perfect if you are the wifi owner and people who have credentials then give it away to people you'd rather not give credentials.

It's still an improvement though.

In the iOS way, your guest can share the creds privately to another person.

In the normal way, your guest can share the creds verbally to another person, which might be overheard by other unintended listeners.

I guess the ideal would be to allow the network owner (which would be determined by what method?) to share to guests with a flag set for no further sharing (and no viewing of credentials).

It's still perfect, because guests can share passwords verbally or in writing too. Not supporting a digital password share just means the sharing will happen another way.

I don't know if it was Android-native or MiUI, but my old phone could share wi-fi credentials by showing it as a QR code. I consider that implementation to be even better since it can be triggered manually

It’s cool but it’s not perfect.

I usually try to use this feature when traveling: either I or my wife will add the new Wi-Fi and share with the other. It works roughly 3/4 times, but the remaining 1/4 is infuriating because there’s no button to manually start the sharing and no info about why it doesn’t work.

I would prefer a reliable button to AirDrop the Wi-Fi credentials instead of unreliable magic.

No it isn't, it leaks data to Apple whether you opt in or not.

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