All of my devices forget all wifi passwords about once a week

Just thought of a quick test we can all try and report back on. On all of our devices, in the iCloud settings, turn off "Passwords & Keychain" and see if that allows all our devices to remember WiFi network credentials long-term. I just disabled that component of iCloud on both my laptops, my iPhone, and iPad. Let's see how that works.

Thanks to Carlos Perez2 - in the iCloud settings, I turned off "Passwords & Keychain" on my iPads and iPhone 14. This appears to work as when I go off my home Wifi network, I can get back in quickly without having to re-enter it’s password.

Update: Been two days since I disabled "Passwords & Keychain" in my iCloud settings on all my devices and so far, none have dropped their WiFi. Everything is stable for now. This seems to be a temporary fix to this very annoying issue. How has it been so far for others doing this experiment?

So apple ?

does apple care cover me for when I loose my **** entering the same password on my work and home networks every other day and throwing my phone out of the window because you iOS is obviously flawed ?

I’m also having the same issue. This is so frustrating. I have been collecting passwords for years, so almost everywhere I would go, my devices would automatically connect to the wifi if I wanted to. Now I have to ask for the password and reenter it every time. Even in my own house, it asks for the password every single time 😣 please find a solution to the problem of so many users.

Update number two: Been 4 days since I disabled "Passwords & Keychain" in my

iCloud settings on all my devices and so far, none have dropped their

WiFi by "forgetting" their WiFi passwords. This appears to be a solution to this problem, though not an ideal one.

To those that suggested that it could be an issue with Keychain through iCloud, this experiment appears to confirm that hypothesis.

This is insanely frustrating. Happening on multiple devices, and it isn’t just on one WiFi network - also cannot share the password from another device on the same network, using the same Apple ID/iCloud etc, with whichever device is randomly forgetting it.

“It just works”. What a joke.

I've had that glitch occur when toggling settings as well. Closing all apps and rebooting the affected device tends to fix that glitch. As an aside, it's good practice to close all apps and reboot all your devices a couple times a week to allow the operating system to do behind the scenes cleanup. Keeps glitches to a minimum.

… I suspect that the issue is linked to roaming activities , or connecting / disconnecting to a network.

I just left home with my phone, switching to 4g , and turned off my macbook computer (leaving it at home but off) , then coming back home, the phone had lost the wifi password and propagated this to the iCloud keychain, turning on the computer it had lost the wifi connection as well (deleted from keychain)

BUT an (old) ipad (Air 2 with ios 15.7.3) that I left at home and was not fully turned off but only « sleeping » didn t lose the wifi network connection. The still wifi connected ipad didn t propagate the wifi password to icloud keychain though (which is reaaaaally weird since this ipad is also part of my icloud and is sharing the keychain) but i was able to come close to it with my phone to share / grab the wifi password from it.

Turning off “Passwords & Keychain” in iCloud is NOT a solution, it’s a symptom, an aspect to the problem.

I have not done this. Today, after being away for 5 days, all my devices joined my WiFi without issue. One, an iPad, go the latest iOS pushed into it last night. The others have not yet.

Suggested solution doesn’t work.

This issue started some time in April or May 2023. It affects all my Apple devices signed into the same Apple ID. In fact this started happening after I upgraded to the 2TB iCloud from the free iCloud. Basically it affects my iPad, iPhones, my multiple Mac running different MacOS versions, and at multiple locations where the Wi-Fi is already recognized as My Network. It could be my home, my second home, my vacation cottage, my friend’s places, my multiple places of work.

it is EXTREMELY inconvenient.

So far, it seems like disabling Keychain on all my devices does the trick. Honestly, I'd much rather manually enter wifi passwords separately on all my devices and have them remember those passwords than having Keychain wipe out all my passwords on all of my devices every couple of days, especially since Apple doesn't think it's worth addressing the issue when it only affects a percentage of Apple users.

So after being extremely frustrated with losing wifi connection dozens of times yesterday I was ready to reset all settings on my phone but didn’t. I’m not sure if it was one thing or multiple things I did for it to stay connected, so far my phone has reconnected to my wifi successfully without me entering the password. Connect to your wifi, Turn off private relay, turn off private wifi address (to right of your wifi connection click the blue i), turn of limit ip address tracking, forget your wifi connection, restart phone. Connect to your wifi and re-enable everything we turn off except private relay.

I am also having this issue. It has to be related to an update from Apple. It's very frustrating. It's effecting all of my devices. Iphones, iPads, MacBook, Mac and Mac Mini's. I don't have this issue with my TV's, Roku devices, Ring cameras, Alexa speakers or smart lighting. This is ONLY Apple devices! I've tried all of the things that have been recommended but no luck.

This is also happening across my Apple devices (iPhone 8, iPhone 14, MacBook Air) I work in multiple locations and it is hugely frustrating to be constantly having to re-enter WiFi passwords. I will try the keychain fix and hope it works. More importantly- Please respond to this issue and fix it Apple!!