Microsoft is engaged on a neater option to view your saved Wi-Fi passwords in Home windows, the corporate reveals in its latest blog post. The brand new function is available in a brand new Insider Preview Construct that’s been launched to the Dev Channel.
With the brand new construct (23466) of Home windows 11, now you can see saved SSID keys in plain textual content by going to Settings > Community and web > Wi-Fi after which going to Handle recognized networks. Then, you possibly can choose a saved SSID and click on View Wi-Fi safety key. And that’s it.
Presently, the Wi-Fi password of the present community your Home windows 11 PC is linked to is buried within the wi-fi system properties, seen by checking a “present characters” field contained in the safety tab there. And if you wish to see different saved Wi-Fi passwords for some motive, you’d should dive into command immediate and Google easy methods to use the netsh command to search out what you want.
The change will make it loads simpler to tug up a Wi-Fi password when you actually need it and both don’t wish to verify the again of the router or discover the random sheet of paper you wrote it down on. As compared, Apple’s macOS has had the flexibility to see a saved Wi-Fi password in macOS for greater than a decade throughout the Keychain Entry utility, though Apple solely added easy access to Wi-Fi keys on your iPhone with the launch of iOS 16 final yr.