Saved WiFi Passwords and Reset Network Settings

[Buadhai]

I've been having problems with my iPhone 14 connecting to Apple Services such as Music and News. Everything else works fine, including AppleTV+. So, I decided to Reset Network Settings. I didn't want to lose my saved WiFi passwords so I turned OFF Passwords and Keychain in iCloud. (Somewhere I read that would work. It didn't.)

After doing the reset I opened Keychain Access on an MBA and sure enough, all of my saved passwords were still there. Great! Since I was about to go out for coffee I checked the coffee shop's SSID. Yep, password still there in the Keychain.

But, when I went to the coffee shop and looked at my iPhone it wanted me to enter the password? Why? It's there in the Keychain. Same with my iPad which didn't have a network reset.

So, does doing a network reset prevent all devices from using saved passwords even though those passwords are still in the Keychain?

Edit: Indeed that seems to be the case. When I tried to connect my MBA to our home guest network I had to enter the password. Never had to before because it is saved in the KeyChain.

Oh, well. Live and learn.

 

[Ruggy]

I don't know specifically but I do know that it's extremely fussy about untrusted wifi networks.
For example, what caught me out until I realised what was going on, was trying to do something- I forget- and it asking for my apple id and it wouldn't accept the password even though it was correct. Going onto cellular data and it accepted it instantly. Easy once you know.
It might have been something along those lines- you must actually know and enter the password on a public network it considers less secure.

 

[Buadhai]

I don't know specifically but I do know that it's extremely fussy about untrusted wifi networks.
For example, what caught me out until I realised what was going on, was trying to do something- I forget- and it asking for my apple id and it wouldn't accept the password even though it was correct. Going onto cellular data and it accepted it instantly. Easy once you know.
It might have been something along those lines- you must actually know and enter the password on a public network it considers less secure.

Interesting and weird.

This is a WiFi network that I've been using several times a week for five or six years. This is the only time I've had to manually enter the password.

 

[winxmac]

Reset network settings erases saved Wi-Fi connections and re-enables cellular/mobile data when turned off...

It re-enables/turns on cellular/mobile data for all default apps and apps that you have used but disabled previously...