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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by spunker540 on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:53PM (#18106961)
One neat application is sharing WiFi passwords— I was recently at a friends place and when I went to sign in to their home WiFi on my iPhone I believe they got a pop up on their phone saying “share password with xyz’s iPhone?” And the whole thing was super seamless, with no need for them to look it up and no need for me to type it in.
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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by samstave on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:58PM (#18106992)
so in the future - you can "war pop-up" random wifi's owners - by simply attempting to connect to the wifi and forcing a pop-up that says "Share wifi password with 'Save 15% of Geico's iPhone?"
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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by jeromegv on Sunday September 30, 2018 @01:10PM (#18107066)
No. It only works when you have each other within your Contacts list.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/share-your-wifi-password-wi...

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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by justtopost on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:22PM (#18108488)
So are they tracking your contacts or can you spoof it from your phone? If one is not possible the other should be.
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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by tinus_hn on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:10AM (#18110187)
On iPhone you have an iMessage acccount which is tied to the phone number. It can be done on the device, so it probably is.
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