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It tells you what to do. Your router is set to use WPA and WPA2. WEP (the oldest Wi-Fi security) was broken long ago. WPA replaced it and that too is no longer secure. iOS is letting you know your router is broadcasting an easily hacked wireless security protocol, and you should turn WPA (not WPA2) off.
From your Mac or Windows computer, go into your router's web setting pages. You should be able to do this from your iPhone, too, as long as you're within Wi-Fi range of your router. Typically, you put 192.168.0.1 into the URL search field. The router should prompt you for an admin name and password. If you don't know what those are, almost all newer routers have that info on a sticker, which is on the router itself.
Once in the settings pages, go to the wireless settings. You should be able to find a drop down menu for the security options. Change it to use WPA2 only, or WPA2/WPA3 if you have that option. Save the settings (the router may tell you it has to be restarted).
One possible downside. If you have much older devices that connect to the router that don't understand any security protocol newer than WPA, they'll no longer be able to talk to the router.
Same here I placed in a ticket about 10 days ago and I have heard an iota back from them. Was told it was going to be forwarded to the engineers and have yet to hear anything from them either. Funny, I have one iPhone 7 I did not update the iOS 14 and it works fine with the router. It’s not the phone, it’s the application which they need to correct.
SV.M, thank you for your advice. I knew my extended SSID router firmware had been up to date, but the main SSID router firmware was not. I went ahead and updated that. Otherwise, both routers are set accordingly to WPA2 (AES). I was hoping that firmware update would fix this, but, darn it, I am still seeing "Weak Security" when I connect to the extended SSID router.
Jet-iP5s, I am also on the latest iOS, 14.0.1, and I'm still seeing this "Weak Security" message. iPhone doesn't want to automatically connect to the extended WiFi because it considers it inferior to the main WiFi, which is really frustrating.
Is anyone else still experiencing this issue?
I verified them, disabled both channels, re-enabled them, reset the router, and re-confirmed they still show at PSK/AES.
I remain skeptical and no this is not my first rodeo setting up a wifi network...
P.S. IoS is now flapping. Every time I join my wifi network, it toggles between no message, and the weak security message.
Lawrence, I preferred it when you didn't think I was a noob. I've spent 20 years in tech in SQA and tested more network equipment than you can shake a stick at. I am in fact connected to the correct network, and have rebooted both my phone and the router as well as confirmed which setting is configured. I also confirmed on my laptop which is also connected to the same wifi network, that it is in fact using WPA2- AES.
I shall await a fix from Apple to correct this issue.
@deggie,
I don't doubt his expertise, and I never challenged him on it. But when I say this isn't my first rodeo and list the multiple steps I've already done and he responds with "Maybe its connecting to a different network", what am I to make of that.
Its all good fellas, its not the first time I've seen a UI report a bogus configuration message, and it certainly won't be the last.
Lawrence, I preferred it when you didn't think I was a noob. I've spent 20 years in tech in SQA and tested more network equipment than you can shake a stick at.
One of the first things to do in any forum is to never take instructions from others as some sort of insult. No one knows what your background is, or your skill level. And even after the part of your statement I quoted, that still doesn't mean there isn't something you haven't tried.
One unalterable fact of technology (and computers in particular), is none of us will ever know everything about them. They are constantly changing at a rapid rate. I'm always finding out about new tricks and settings in macOS and iOS I didn't even know were there.
And yes, I've been at this a long time, too. From dumb terminals that connected to mainframe via a 300 baud modem (phone pressed into a dual rubber cup on the terminal), to DOS 3.1 on an IBM XT clone, and forward through many PCs and Macs. I'm under no delusion that I know more than 2% about everything you could learn about all of it. If even that much.
I have the same issue post iOS 14 upgrade but only on last years iPad Pro. This years iPad Pro and my iPhone XR not a problem.
I have a virgin media hub too so will try a full power down on the Apple devices and see if it removes the warning.
Then start checking the router settings.
update to follow.
I’m seeing it and the red dot at the top of the screen. I’m a virgin media customer and I cannot change the settings regardless of what I do. I’ve taken my iPhone and iPad back to original settings but still no change. My older iPhone and iPad don’t have the message or red dot. This is ever since I updated software. I think apple need to update software again to get rid of this bug.
Why is this slowing down my connection on my iPhone but not on anything else???
if i try and change it can you assure me it won’t affect my other equipment connected to the WiFi. What if i cant change this!!
But my router settings are on WPA2-PSK with encryption AES and my phone is also giving me this weak security message about TKIP not being secure. But I’m not using TKIP! So I have no idea what needs changing?
But I cannot tell other people to change their router settings. It happens with every network that I try to use. I need to use my iphone, ipad and macbook on many home networks as I am a home teacher and I teach in various homes. I believe it is an Apple problem and should be fixed so that I can access all the wifi networks that I was able to access last week. Please help me Apple
Me too!! The instructions for altering the router settings are irrelevant. My friends with non Apple devices are not having this problem. Also I cannot ask other people to alter their router settings!
Typical reply from Apple.
its my fault or some other faulty equipment.
They won’t accept responsibility for the issue they created.
It all worked fine before IOS 14 now it doesn’t.
please explain this!!!
I shouldn’t have to change or update any other equipment as it worked before YOUR update.
The fundamental question here is why are my IOS 14.2 iPhone and iPad reporting the use of WPA2 -TKIP and suggesting that I use WPA2 - AES when I am in fact already using WPA2 - AES?
Can anyone answer just this specific question?
I have tried every combination of turning wifi on/off, resetting networking connections, etc. etc. Some things seem to have cleared the message, but then sometime later it reappears.
Could it be that IOS 14.2 is incorrectly determining the encryption method, hence issuing an incorrect warning message?
My router only has the following options :- No security, WPA/WPA2 - Personal, WPA2/WPA2 - Enterprise and WEP. I guess I'll just have to live in the warning.
It seems as though you don't know why my iPhone thinks my router is using TKIP, but thanks anyway.
Anyone else out there, can you explain it?
Does anyone not using a TP Link AX3000 have this issue?
Thanks.
Weak Security WiFi on iPhone
