When connecting to new WiFi SSID, iPhone 13 always attempts to connect to old SSID instead
This sounds crazy and I haven't been able to find anyone else having this issue.
I travel for work so I see a lot of new wireless access points. Lots of hotels, lots of small businesses.
Every single time I go to connect to a wireless access point that I have not yet connected to, when I select the SSID I desire and go to type in credentials, the SSID it says I am attempting to log in to is Hilton Honors. Hilton Honors, being the SSID anytime you stay at a Hilton property, is what it attempts every single time.
It is not sometimes HH, and other times Marriott, and other times the SSID of the friend's house I was at; it is ALWAYS incorrectly attempting to log in to Hilton Honors. I don't have to be anywhere near a Hilton. I have been a 40 minute drive to the nearest Hilton (thus, no HH SSID is even populating in my list of available networks) and yet, once I click on my desired SSID, it takes me to the iPhone page to enter credentials but it says up top "Hilton Honors". Which, of course, errors out...
But then, consistently, it kicks me back to the list of available networks. I click on the same, correctly desired SSID again, and now it accurately allows me to submit my credentials for this network.
This is every single time I attempt to log in to a new network. It is without fail. There are no times this is not the case.
If I want to connect to a SSID I have been on previously, it works flawlessly. But if I have not been on this network before (or if I hit "forget network") and try to connect again, I am pointed to this non-existent Hilton Honors SSID.
I am currently on iOS 15.4.1. But this problem is not new. I have had this for several iOS versions now. I keep hoping a new version would fix this, but it hasn't.
I have gone to 'General-->Transfer or Reset-->Reset-->Reset Network Settings'. While this did blow out all settings and I had to retype all network credentials, it did not alleviate my problem. It did not even change symptoms. It still has me falsely attempting to connect to this specific ghost network.
iPhone shut downs and restarts have done nothing.
Has anybody else EVER seen this? I have no idea why this would be stuck so hard in the memory banks of the iPhone.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15