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How to Find the Password for Any Wi-Fi Network You’ve Connected To

It’s easy to forget the Wi-Fi passwords of places you frequent — like coffee shops, libraries, school and work — but we can help you find them. Your computer has likely saved the Wi-Fi passwords for any networks you’ve signed into. Read more about finding Wi-Fi passwords: Best Password Manager to Use for 2022: What…

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It’s easy to forget the Wi-Fi passwords of places you frequent — like coffee shops, libraries, school and work — but we can help you find them. Your computer has likely saved the Wi-Fi passwords for any networks you’ve signed into.

Read more about finding Wi-Fi passwords:
Best Password Manager to Use for 2022:
What makes a good password?:

0:00 Find Forgotten Wi-Fi Passwords
0:44 Finding Wi-Fi Passwords on MacOS
1:47 Finding Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows (Option 1)
2:35 Finding Wi-Fi Passwords on Windows (Option 2)

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31 Comments

  1. Rahul Jayachandran

    March 28, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    Thank you for the info,much appreciated.

  2. Pepper the Dog

    March 28, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    Thanks for this! Is there a version of this for Android?

    • Neel O

      March 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm

      Check out CNET’s _The best Android 10 features you should be using today_ article.

    • Yathuprem S

      March 28, 2022 at 2:17 pm

      Long press the wifi icon>goto saved networks>tap the preferred wifi network name>tap share

      There, under the QR code u could find the network password.

      The above steps are for vanilla android system, the steps will change depending on the android skin you got.

  3. SUB 4 SUB

    March 28, 2022 at 12:15 pm

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  4. iMonZ

    March 28, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    My laptop any my phone is synchronizing the password 😂

  5. iMonZ

    March 28, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    You forgot Ubuntu

  6. Mike Oxlong

    March 28, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    This video is gunna go viral

  7. Kai Zah

    March 28, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    i tried it and it’s not working it said the wireless autoconfig service (wlansvc) is not running. help

  8. Brett Wellington

    March 28, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    This is great!

  9. james bucsis

    March 28, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Lol, thought this was about to connect to any password. Thumbs down

  10. Juan Visbal

    March 28, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    Great video. I would recommend upgrading the video to use Windows 11 and Terminal.

  11. Toonami20

    March 28, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    Does this actually work on IPad’s?

    • Joe Black

      March 28, 2022 at 4:19 pm

      This only works on computers. Is you use a Mac, there not need to do that so macOs & iOs sync password between device with the same apple id!

  12. Tawaka Dziruni

    March 28, 2022 at 2:58 pm

    You posses forbidden knowledge 😳

  13. JŁM'z

    March 28, 2022 at 3:13 pm

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  14. Mark Walusimbi

    March 28, 2022 at 3:17 pm

    You should have mentioned that this works on WLAN with personal authentication. Those with enterprise don’t show the passcode

  15. STAR BOY

    March 28, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    Thnx you guys are awesome 👌🏻

  16. John Doe

    March 28, 2022 at 3:39 pm

    Very nice 👍

  17. Keys Treasures

    March 28, 2022 at 3:57 pm

    Excellent tutorial.

  18. Danny Danny

    March 28, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    I think I only have one 1 WiFi Network here, so test is inconclusive

  19. Lex Nel

    March 28, 2022 at 4:43 pm

    I already knew how to find it on my PC. How do I find it if it’s on my phone? That’s the tricky one.

  20. dtvfan24

    March 28, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Appreciate this information

  21. John Jones

    March 28, 2022 at 6:18 pm

    Damn shows the simplicity of Mac OS and yes this is the same basically for iPhone/iPad, good to know on Windows though, didn’t realize the OS didn’t have a keychain, great video though

  22. Gman1024

    March 28, 2022 at 6:39 pm

    Great information.
    Please note, won’t work with enterprise or if you have your wi-fi adapter disabled in windows.

  23. AllProWebTools

    March 28, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    ‘Inspect’

  24. 𝔼𝕤𝕖

    March 28, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    Bro I need the password of wifi I’m not yet connected to

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      March 28, 2022 at 10:59 pm

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  25. Random Kindness

    March 29, 2022 at 7:53 am

    So is this video about how to find network passwords you’ve accessed or how apple has a better security system than windows. …Through social engineering someone can gain access to all your “hotspot gadgets” then follow you around campus and link up to you personal wifi/mifi hotspots if you use a windows laptop. I say this because I know a lot of people that use their smartphone to make their own hotspots on campus.

  26. Usama Anwar

    March 29, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Us ZX decoder

  27. Mark

    March 30, 2022 at 10:42 am

    Good stuff

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