I, often, find myself wondering what all these WiFi’s are on my phone and I think it would be useful to be able to set a nickname for a wifi network so to remember which one is which. For example “parents house” etc. What do you think?

  • cloudless@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why do you want to remember which one is which? Don’t they just connect automatically when in range?

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      8 months ago

      Not op, but a possible use case could/would be if you live close enough to your parents and you need to switch between two auto-generated SSIDs that are very similar and locked (such as using APs from same provider) to access local devices (Such as Lights/Audio/Video).

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      8 months ago

      It’s useful when you are deleting them and you don’t wanna delete one you want but can’t remember which one is plus it’s more user friendly

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      8 months ago

      Gotta agree with this comment. If it’s an unknown network, and you don’t know the password, you can’t connect anyways, so who cares what it’s called. And what additional insight is gained by labeling your parents wifi ‘parents house’ when you know you can only use it at their house?

    • andrew@lemmy.dblclk.dev
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      8 months ago

      I regularly clear out saved networks and it would be nice if I could remember whose randomly generated SSID each was.