Is there an API in CocoaTouch/iOS for detecting wireless networks? I want to write an app that saves a list of networks the phone can see at a given moment.
As far as I know you can get the information about the current connected Wi-Fi using CNCopySupportedInterfaces and CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo of CaptiveNetwork. You can refer to: How do I use CaptiveNetwork to get the current WiFi Hotspot Name for more information.
According to iPhone get a list of all SSIDs without private library:
Without the use of private library (Apple80211) you can only get the SSID of the network your device is currently connected to.
You could have a look at iphone-wireless project if you are interested in Apple80211. There exists a sample app "Stumber" which does exactly what you want. But you cannot use this in your app if you want to publish to App Store because as it uses private APIs
Check out this https://github.com/mustafa96m/iOS-Wireless-Scanner-API
Hopefully it helps
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I have a simple question but I don't know how to implement this. I need to create an app that can get all list of available wifi networks names and information when the user clicks on some network iPhone have to connect to this network. Can I do this? and How. Please Help me.
answer is no in some case you get list of nearer wifi but can't connect.(its also not advisable)
details :-
prefer below links to get wifi list:
How to get available wifi network name in iOS using swift
iOS Get list of all WiFi networks
some similar questions for reference:
Connect to WiFi programmatically in ios
connect to a specific wifi programmatically in ios with a given SSID and Password
Where do I find iOS Obj-C code to scan and connect to wifi (private API)
Programmatically auto-connect to WiFi iOS
The most interesting answer seems to be in the first link which points to a GitHub project: wifiAssociate. However someones in the third link explains that this doesn't work anymore with iOS8 so you might have hard time getting it running.
Furthermore the iDevice must be jailbroken.
i hope it will help you :)
I want to use the CNCopySupportedInterfaces API to get the SSID of Wifi interface. But I just have doubt about the API CNCopySupportedInterfaces. Will this API provide a list of all configured Wifi interfaces or only one which is currently active or info about all access points that are reachable (but not configured) at that moment?
CNCopySupportedInterfacesand CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo of CaptiveNetwork, will gives only your connected wifi name and detail, Without the use of private library (Apple80211) it will not provide you other reachable wifi list or other info.
You can refer to: How do I use CaptiveNetwork to get the current WiFi Hotspot Name for more information.
You could have a look at iphone-wireless project if you are interested in Apple80211. There exists a sample app "Stumber" which does exactly what you want. But you cannot use this in your app if you want to publish to App Store because as it uses private APIs. Apple rejects apps those use private APIs.
As of iOS 9 Beta 4 CNCopySupportedInterfaces is deprecated. Much pain ensuing....
https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/31340#31340
I know it is possible to list the available Wifi networks on iPhone using the CaptiveNetwork API from official Apple SDK.
I was wondering if there is a way to auto connect to a specific SSID programmatically as long as I can find it in the list returned by CaptiveNetwork ?
Apple would not like you to do such things. Connecting to Wifi Stations is the responsibility of the user, so don't expect a public API. See e.g. here. Probably the makers of this app also would like to do it automatically.
Peter
First of all, I don't think you will be able to get the list of available WiFi networks on iPhone using Captive network API. It will just give you the details of your connected wifi. And though there is private APIs to do this, Apple doesn't approve the apps that use them.
As I know, you only could get the current-connected wifi without using private api, but what confusing me is Nest iOS App do could get a list of available wifi, and Apple didn't reject it!!!
I want to identify all the available wifi networks currently available. I am checking the file at path
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.wifi.plist
But it gives all the networks to which iPhone has connected till date. It does not give currently available networks.
How to do it? It's ok even if it's a private API. I have to do it anyhow.
There is no way you can access the available wifi's ssid in your iPhone app currently . I tried with some API but Apple rejected the App saying its a private API. I also sent my query to Apple Developer support and they replied saying this is not possible in current iOS version.
I was wondering if it is possible to list and connect to nearby wifi access points programmatically. The Reachability sample only addresses if the device is connected to wifi or 3G/edge, and using something like the CaptiveNetwork API allows me to register if wifi authentication should be handled by a custom application but does not contain anything relating to the wifi connection aspect. Ideally I am looking for something like android.net.wifi.WifiManager from the Android SDK.
This is not possible with the public API.
There used to be Apps in the App Store which did this using private methods, but they have been removed by Apple.