I'm often using my phone as a wireless hotspot for my Surface Pro. I just recently purchased an Iphone 7+ and cannot find out how to set the SSID name as well as how to set it as hidden.
I searched and only see something about changing the device name, which makes no sense.
Is there a long-press menu here or something?
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 10.3.2
I've never seen a way to hide the SSID for the iPhone hotspot.
For years I used to hide the SSID on my home network, but I stopped. It isn't such a great security feature. If someone is really trying to be malicious, they'll simply use one of the easy to find tools that see hidden SSIDs...I found one for Macs years and years ago. Also, because of the way devices search for SSIDs, hiding an SSID can actually increase the amount of network traffic carrying the SSID name as devices seek to reconnect. Anyone eavesdropping in the area with a few basic skills or tools would see that "hidden" SSID flying around in radio packets anyway.
(Links to more info: Why hiding your SSID makes your security worse and 3 reasons why hiding your SSID is a bad idea)
For true security, hiding the SSID is not very effective, and it is much less effective than using a strong password. Fortunately, the iPhone hotspot allows you to set a strong password. After doing that, hiding the SSID would not give you any more security.
There is no provision to change or hide the hotspot SSID name. Never has been.
Really? Wow! I never would have thought. Any idea when that bug will be fixed? I've been changing the SSID on devices for ten years, from Blackberry, to Android, to Windows.
An intentional design is not a bug.
How set SSID name and hidden?
