Your phone will auto connect to their network and it will brick your safari until you clear your cookies and delete your history. Super f@&$€#%^ annoying. Is there a way to prevent Starbucks from hijacking my phone. Aside from never going there again which is probably what I'm going to do.
it will not auto connect unless you've connected to their network before. it may prompt you to join depending on your setting for ask to join networks but it will not connect unless you tell it to.
Use protection software such as Hotspot Shield 3.19 to protect the phone when you use unprotected networks. However, Starbucks is not hijacking your phone. Something else is going on. Why would Starbucks hijack your phone?
It will only auto connect to their network if you have connected to the network before. You have control over that on your device.
The Starbucks network is not listed in my networks, so I can't delete it or forget it.
It will only be listed when you are connected to it, and a network cannot brick your browser.
I walked in, opened my browser and their home page popped up with even asking me to join their network. Then it wouldn't allow me to close the page or open another browser page, that's hijacking my phone When I can't close what they've done and I can't do what I want to do until I restart my phone and clear my settings.
Are you an AT&T customer? Starbuck's Wi-Fi is an AT&T enhancement. Again, that would be the only reason and if you had already joined their network before. In Settings, in Wi-Fi do you have ASk to Join Networks set to On? Did you see the Wi-Fi signal fan in the status bar?
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
Are you an AT&T customer? Starbuck's Wi-Fi is an AT&T enhancement.
They're using Google in some places now.
edgeoftheweb wrote:
Your phone will auto connect to their network and it will brick your safari until you clear your cookies and delete your history. Super f@&$€#%^ annoying. Is there a way to prevent Starbucks from hijacking my phone. Aside from never going there again which is probably what I'm going to do.
I go into Starbucks 5 days a week. Sometimes I use their WiFi. It has never 'hijacked" my phone. I can't recall the last time I cleared my cookies or deleted my history. I've also never "auto-connected" to the network even though I've used it before.
What you're describing is not normal behaviour. Starbucks uses a captive portal system. In order to log in, you need to launch Safari and accept the T&Cs. If you don't want to log in, you just close that window and go about your business. If it's not working that way for you, there's possibly something wrong with your phone. Have you tried resetting your device by pressing and holding the Home button and power button until the silver apple appears? Have you tried restoring it?
I Am an at&t customer but I don't use the Starbucks networks because LTE is way faster
edgeoftheweb wrote:
Your phone will auto connect to their network and it will brick your safari
Works fine here...
edgeoftheweb wrote:
I Am an at&t customer but I don't use the Starbucks networks because LTE is way faster
It really doesn't matter what carrier you use. This is WiFi. What you're describing is not normal behavior. You need to troubleshoot your issue.
Once I cleared the settings (delete cookies, clear history.)everything is working fine now. But until I did it safari was completely taken over.
edgeoftheweb wrote:
Once I cleared the settings (delete cookies, clear history.)everything is working fine now. But until I did it safari was completely taken over.
I understand that. And that's not normal behavior. Perhaps you've deleted the problem and it won't happen again. Or, perhaps you'll need to do more troubleshooting.
Of course, if you never go back to Starbucks, you'll probably save yourself a great deal of money. 😉
Wi-fi networks can't hijack an iPhone. Stop posting paranoid ill-informed propaganda. The next time you have a technical issue and want to post it here, stick to the FACTS, of what you actually know to be true. Don't jump to conclusions.
You should have simply stated: When I went to a Starbucks, my iPhone connected to their wi-fi network, and my Safari browser would only open up their webpage. Why did this happen, and how can I prevent it in the future?
Warning do not walk into a Starbucks your iPhone will get hijacked
