How do I disable xfinity wifi?

According to Comcast connecting without the profile will give you a connection, but only for a limited time (30 minutes I believe) then you have the opportunity of choosing whether you want to pay for it and then you will get a profile. Once you have the profile logging in is not required, and the connection will last for as long as you want it to.

Saw that, over at Xfinity's site right now and visited a Samsung site where users also complain about this so definitely not an Apple thing. They do have a stop doing it process but it assumes you already have connected once and oddly you have to turn off WiFi to do it.

XFINITY Mobile

This one covers both Android and iPhone.

deggie wrote:

Saw that, over at Xfinity's site right now and visited a Samsung site where users also complain about this so definitely not an Apple thing. They do have a stop doing it process but it assumes you already have connected once and oddly you have to turn off WiFi to do it.

XFINITY Mobile

This one covers both Android and iPhone.

Very interesting. I note that the Xfinity article was written on May 30 2017 -- many months after the original post (Dec 3, 2014)

Sadly the iPhone instructions are not valid for IOS 10.3.3 -- There is no "auto-join" to toggle off. I believe that option WAS available in older versions of IOS. The same is true of the iPad which is running the same version of IOS.

Then you will need to contact Xfinity and see what their current advice is on how to turn this off. As you can see it does not affect just Apple. The article was written after 10.3 was released and 10.3.3 itself mad no changes to the auto-join option, it plugged a major security hole.

I've experienced this connection problem for many years but have focused on more important issues.

I believe this should be an issue for all xfinity business account subscribers. I'd be very upset if I were paying xfinity to provide WiFi to my business customers only to have them interfere with this service to proselytize (force advertise) for xfinity services, at the inconvenience of my customers.

I don't know why computer/phone manufacturers can't seem to allow their hardware to block xfinity.

Since xfinity has worked hard, and heavily invested, to transform themselves from one of the worst customer support companies to one of the best, maybe they should reconsider this business account policy.

(I apologize if this point has already been made but I'm not going to browse 17 pages of replies to check.)

I have tried to disable it also for a year. It just will not delete or go away. Seems to me that this is the equivalent of a virus that Comcast uses to try to obtain customers. All it does is make me mad at them and insure that I will never use their service.

Do you mean this:

One assumes that the Rules Apple has posted:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202831

Are correct and current.

Hi Firewell,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

If you have a wireless network that you no longer want to see or connect to then remove that network from the list of remembered networks.

iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections - Apple Support

5. Tap Settings > Wi-Fi and locate the Wi-Fi network to which you're connected.
6. Tap  and Forget this Network.

OS X Mavericks: Choose preferred Wi-Fi networks

1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Network.

2. Choose Wi-Fi in the network connection services list, then click Advanced.

3. … Select a network and click Delete ➖ to remove it from the list.

Best regards,

Nubz

I'm not a customer of either Comcast or xFinity and had no clue how they were doing it, but the xfinity popup kept overriding my peferred provider for wi fi. I was having to manually deselect it and then choose my regular connection. So effing annoying -thanks for the tip.

Hi

Go to wifi when this comes up click forget this network .

Cheers

Brian uk

The Mavericks option worked for me on El Capitan. I simply deleted the wifi network, which was OK b/c my computer is connected by Ethernet.

THANK YOU

Stupid question maybe, but why do you have wifi turned on if you use ethernet?

That's not a stupid question. I didn't turn on wifi myself. Perhaps it's all part of the xfinity popup procedure.