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Sunday, July 13th, 2025 5:31 PM

Auto-connecting to xfinity mobile hotspots

My IPhone 8, iOS 16.7.11, with Xfinity mobile cellular service, will not auto-connect to any available xfinity mobile hotspot, generally. Instead, when the hotspot is selected, it presents a dialog for username and password. The username is pre-filled ("anonymous" something something) but the password is not. Not having a password (to my knowledge), the iPhone will not connect at all.  

I say generally because today, for the first time ever, it did auto-connect on the first try. Then it failed twice with the usual bad behavior, after I had switched back to my home router Wifi network. Puzzling.

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Proleek3000 Good afternoon! Thank you for reaching out to our Xfinity Forums Team for assistance with the Xfinith Hotspots. With iPhone users, your phoen will automatically connect to Xfinity Wi-Fi Hotspots. There is a slight difference between a secured Wi-Fi Hotspot, and a public hotspot. The unsecured hotspot will come up like this, (xifnitywifi), and not require a password. If it's a secured hotspot, that's when you will see the password option. I hope this helps. Please feel free to let us know if you have any follow-up questions we can answer for you. 
 
 
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/find-nearby-wifi-hotspots 

 

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