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

This is interesting. It's a huge hassle, especially since not all of my devices/computer are in the same location. BUT that said, if others chime in that it IS in fact working, I'll definitely give it a shot. Mine will involve some driving but it will be worth it to get RID of this annoying *** problem.

I am having this issue also and it started when I added a new iPhone 15 and new Watch Ultra. I started getting prompted to reenter my Wi-Fi password on all my devices after they sleep or on my phone the screen shuts off. I have traced it down to an iCloud key chain issue. I spoke with support and they had me disable the keychain on all my devices and then force a new iCloud keychain creation. I did that.... Issue persists.... So I removed all devices and added them to my account again and forced a new iCloud keychain.... the issue persists. This has been going on since the release of the new iPhone. I am going insane and almost threw my phone. I have watched the entry disappear from the iCloud keychain from the Keychain manager on my Macs. Just poof.

The recommendations are extremely frustrating as I have a very large Apple environment so I have to spend like 8 hrs re-adding all my stuff and calling my CC companies to get my wallet set up again... I need a real solution and fix it asap as I am going mad. I just don't have to add my wifi I have to reenter stuff on other iCloud items.

I meant to try the Carlos solution (previous page) before changing location again but never got round to it. However, when I went back to my London home earlier this week (after four weeks away) my phone, tablet and MacBook all connected to the wifi automatically. Then when I visited my mother the next day (first time in five weeks) they all connected to her wifi too. Do I dare to hope that, in my case at least, the problem is over after nine months?

My problem started in May of this year after upgrading to iOS 6, and getting the paid iCloud 2TB account. I spent many hours with Apple tech support, who asked me to upload analytics data from my various IOS devices. It was a large project, requiring a fair bit of time. By the end of September, my problem seems to be gone. I also am in a large Apple ecosystem, with three MacBooks (High Sierra x 2 and Ventura x 1), five IOS devices (all now on the latest iOS 16), traveling between seven different sites between two countries. So basically, now in October, my devices are able to remember the Wi-Fi passwords. Hope this problem does not resurface. This is definitely an iCloud keychain issue. Apple tech support appears to need to work on the backend, possibly for each account that has this problem.

Well same happens to me since new iPhone 15 pro.

turning off keychain in iCloud on the phone seems to work.

so likely a keychain issue. But kinda defeats the purpose of keychain sync.

hope Apple is working on a solution

have not yet tried what was posted a few pages back- total disconnect all devices for half hour. Maybe later this week.

I have the same problem. Iphone 8, ipad mini 4 and a mac mini late 2012 (10.15.7). i could solve the problem transitionally - i have disabled the icloud keychain function on my old mac mini! i think it is a problem with old devices/os systems an new one.

what worked for me was a suggestion from another thread

on every device so affected go into settings -- wifi-- and then - this is the key-

edit the list of networks and delete the network affected. (NOT forget this network - but full delete)

then restart device. then re log into the network with PW/

since doing this the automatic connection seems to work been a week or so

Thank you, no it didn’t work but it has helped a little. (To be clear, on every device I deleted / forgot my home wifi, then rebooted, then connected to the wifi, then put in the password).

My 2 MacBooks seem to be more stable, although it’s only been a day so far. However it didn’t work at all on my iPhones and iPads. They are still dropping WiFi and forgetting the passwords. In addition they don’t take the password again without rebooting every time.

Its massively driving up my mobile data usage so I hope Apple jump on to this and get it fixed!!

The same happens for all my Apple devices I’m logged into. All devices forget their WiFI password at the same time. A 2015 MBP, a 2023 MBA, Apple Watch, 3 Apple TVs, 2022 IPad Pro.

I don’t know if this is the same for everyone, but I have multiple wireless networks. One for my Kids and one for the parents. I only lost the password on devices that were actively running on my Kids network, but it was across all Apple device that happened to be on the Kids network. Those on the main/parental network and its password remained intact. I happened to be on my phone (13 pro max) and 2023 MBA and all Apple TV on the kids network at the time since I was adding Apple Watches for my kids to the network, so I happened to be on my Kids network at the time. My iPad, watch, old MBP were on the primary/parental network and were not affected. So somehow for me at least, it seems to have only affected Apple devices on the same wireless network and on the same iCloud account. Also note that even the Apple TVs that were sleeping were affected.

I'm having this same issue, and I turned off "Passwords and Keychain" in the iCloud settings on my iPhone. This appears to be working as a bandaid to prevent my iPhone from constantly disconnecting its WiFi connection. Recently, iOS 17.4 was released. Does anyone here know if iOS 17.4 fixed this issue?

I was actually having the same exact issue… what I ended up having to go and do, was forget the Wi-Fi for all of my devices that’s the main key…. you have to do it for all of your devices. Also I had to go into the network settings on each of my devices and delete those, once that has been done, you are able to go in and sign into your Wi-Fi with no issues.

I’m having the exact same issue, my iPhone, iMac and IPad all disconnect from my home wifi and then keep asking me for the password

This is getting ridiculous. Having to type my password every day in 4-5 devices is no fun.

Silence from Apple is very concerning.

Happening to me also on iPad Pro 11”, iPhone XS Max, and MBP.

Problem is just as others describe in this thread

• iPad is 16.5.1
• iPhone is 16.5.1

So you mean to turn off "Passwords and Keychain" under "iCloud" settings? (See attached photo below)