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Change the WiFi SSID on Personal Hotspot

Is is possible to change the SSID of the WiFI personal Hotspot to be something other than my phones name? I don't especially like broadcasting my name around for random people to see. I know i can change the phone name, but I'd rather not change that, and just have an independent SSID name

MacBook Pro 17" Intel Core i7, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 2:03 PM

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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 2:04 PM

The only way is to change your phone's name.
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Feb 22, 2013 2:19 AM in response to wjosten

Hi there,


It is a bit rediculous that Phone's name is actually a name of the SSID 🙂 I have the same SSID at home, at work and for all of my mobile devices. The passwords are the same so all my friends can use them without adding a one more entry into the list of hotspots. Do I need to change my SSID for all devices to ****'s iPhone or should I take stupid phone's name instead? It is a rhetorical question.


For me it is just a marketing so everyone see "***'s iPhone" SSID when is searching for the Wi-Fi hotspot. Many of customers even not recognized that their names ***** have been silvently turned into "****'s iPhone" 🙂


Hope that Apple will resolve this later in the next FW releases.

Change the WiFi SSID on Personal Hotspot

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