How to share your WiFi password

What is the wifi password? This is a fairly frequent question when we receive visitors at home, or when we go to other houses and we want to connect without spending data. How to share WiFi password? The easiest way is to go to the router and copy the key that is written on the back of the device. But there are other more comfortable and simple ways to do it.

Unless we have customized the home WiFi password to our liking (using a secret word or some combination of our own), this is usually a crazy combination of numbers and uppercase and lowercase letters without any meaning. A gibberish impossible to memorize.

Therefore, this is not very convenient when we have to connect a new device. "There has to be another way to do it," you ask. And indeed, there is. There are, to be more correct. That is precisely what we are going to see in this post. All the ways we have at our disposal to share WiFi password with other users' devices (or with your own), either from Android or from iOS.

The best: they are very simple tricks that we can all use without being experts or having advanced knowledge in networking.

Previous step: access the router configuration

To facilitate the process of sharing WiFi password it is necessary first of all enter the router configuration and modify the connection. There are two IPs that will be very practical for this process: 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.0.1.

These are the steps to follow:

1. To begin with, we open a browser and write the address 192.168.1.1 in the address bar (If it doesn't appear, we use the other one, 192.168.0.1). This numbering represents the gateway to the router's administrator panel in almost all cases.
2. Next, a window will appear requesting the current username and password of our router.

Once this is done, access to the router will be expedited. In this way we can explore its configuration panel and change all the parameters we want. It should be borne in mind that the interface can vary a lot depending on the manufacturer and the model. In any case, the operations to be carried out will be basically the same:

• Change the password to access the router.
• Now, change the name of the WiFi network (the name of the SSID).
• Change WiFi password in the WPA section.
• Finally, although it is not essential, it is prudent make a backup before finalizing the process.

Methods to share WiFi password

These are the most practical methods to share the password to our WiFi network with other people:

Via WhatsApp

Yes, WhatsApp It will also serve us to send the name of the WiFi network and its corresponding password to a third party. It is actually a very simple method, as you will see below. Any other messaging app can be used, although in this case we will use the example of WhatsApp, since it is the most widespread application of this type.

The most practical thing is to have the password saved on the smartphone in an app such as OneNote o Google Keep. From there we will select the text by keeping the finger pressed and thus save it on the clipboard. In this way, it is very easy to paste it into the WhatsApp message of the contact with whom we want to share the password.

Through a QR code

Did you know that also it is possible to create a QR code with your WiFi credentials? To do this, you have to use the web Qi-Fi. In it, you have to fill in the SSID, Encryption and Key fields so that the application can generate a code with this data. This is what to write in each of the fields:

The data that you have to enter in each field are the following:

• SSID: Name of our WiFi network.
• Encryption: The type of encryption our WiFi network uses. Normally, it is WPA / WPA2, so nothing needs to be changed.
• Key: The WiFi password.

Once this is done, you just have to press the button Generate! After this, the QR code is generated automatically. Next, you have to go to the button Export! to download the QR in an image (it will come in PNG format). We can print it or share it with our friends when they ask us for the WiFi password.

Share WiFi password on iOS

If you have a iPhone or iPod, sharing the WiFi password is even easier, since the iOS operating system has a password sharing option that Android phones lack. With it, the process is incredibly fast and easy.

The only requirement is that both whoever sends the password and who receives it have an iPhone with iOS 11 or higher. If so, just connect our iPhone to WiFi and notify the target contact so that they can select the same WiFi network as us with their iPhone.

When the receiver or recipient tries to connect to the WiFi, a message wondering if we want user X to connect to our network. To grant permission, you have to click on the option "Share password with your iPhone." The connection will be executed automatically.

And on Android?

To catch up with iOS, the operating system Android 10 released a couple of years ago, it incorporated a method to perform this operation in a similar way. That is, in a very easy and fast way. This means that any Android user who has updated their device with the new version can use it.

The steps to follow to share the WiFi password with other devices is somewhat more complex than that of iOS. These are the steps to follow:

1. First of all, we open the application "Settings" on our device.
2. Then we select the menu "Conexión" (Depending on the phone model, it may appear as "Network" or "Internet".
3. There we click on the name of the WiFi network in which we are connected.
4. Then we click on the icon of the cog wheel or gear located next to the WiFi name.
5. We select the menu "QR code" located at the bottom of the screen
6. Finally, the QR code corresponding to the network key will be generated to share with other users.