Check the Show password box, enter your system password, and click the Allow button. That should show you the password for the wireless network you are on, if it is stored on your computer. If no such entry appears, it means the password is not stored on your computer. If your computer is connected to the internet, Go to browser type the IP address of the router(it will be in the router) in the URL field. Router setting page will open. It will ask for username and password. The default username will be “admin” And password will be “admin” or “password”.
In case you do not remember the password for your WiFi network, you can recover it using your Mac. Your Mac saves passwords for all of the WiFi networks that you connect to in the Keychain Access and lets you view them when you want. Keychain Access also stores a number of other passwords that you use for various apps on your machine.
Here’s how you can use Keychain Access to retrieve your forgotten WiFi network password.
Recovering a Forgotten WiFi Password Using Your Mac
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1. Click on Launchpad in your dock, search for and click on “Keychain Access.”
2. When Keychain Access loads, click on “System” in the left-hand menu. That is where your WiFi network is located.
3. Find your WiFi network in the long list. When you have found it, right click on it and select “Get Info” to get to the screen where you can see the password.
4. On the screen that follows and checkmark the box that says “Show password” to have it show you the WiFi password.
5. A prompt will appear asking you to enter your username and password. Do so and click on “OK” to move forward.
6. You will get a second prompt asking you to enter your full username and password. Fill in those details, and then click on “Allow” for Keychain Access to show the password.
7. You should be able to see your WiFi network password in the box next to the “Show password” checkbox to help you use it on your other devices.
If you would like to copy the password to your clipboard in a faster way, you can simply right click your WiFi network in the list, select the “Copy Password to Clipboard” option and the password will be copied to your clipboard.
Do note that you will still need to enter your user account details before getting the password copied to your clipboard. That is just a precaution that Apple takes to ensure that you are the authorized user before giving access to that particular information on your Mac.
Conclusion
It is very easy to forget the WiFi password if it has not been used recently, and the guide above should help you recover it using your Mac.
One of the best things about being an internet entrepreneur and running a blog (the one you’re reading) for a living is that I can work from almost any place that has internet, or more precisely, a Wi-Fi network I can connect to. This liberty has had me hopping from one coffee shop to another, the ones with free Wi-Fi of course. That also means that I’ve got a list of wireless networks saved on my Mac that help me automatically connect to the Wi-Fi of a place I’ve visited before.
Although I don’t need to bother about the Wi-Fi password once it is up and running, there are times when I might need to see them (when I need to share it, for instance). You don’t expect me to remember them, do you?
So, this post is about finding the password of a Wi-Fi network that’s saved in your Mac. Unlike in Windows, where you can directly go to the Properties of that particular network and make it show the password, things are a bit different on the OS X versions.
Here are the steps to make Mac show a Wi-Fi password.
Step 1: Note the name of the network by clicking on the Wi-Fi icon. It goes without saying that this is a network you are connected to or have connected to in the past.
Step 2: Go to Spotlight by hitting Command + Space bar and type Keychain. Keychain is an utility that comes built-into Macs, and does the job of storing system-wide passwords.
Step 3: Open Keychain Access and you should find that network listed there somewhere. If you can’t locate it at a glance, try searching for it using the search bar at the top. In my case, it was there right at top of the list.
Step 4: Right-click on that listing and click on Get Info. You may choose to copy the password to the clipboard and then paste it on TextEdit in order to reveal it, but if you just want to quickly see the password then you can do it right here.
Step 5: You’ll now need to click the Show password checkbox in the box that pops up.
Step 6: Keychain will ask you to enter the admin password before it can show you the password of that particular network. Enter the password, click on Allow and voila, your password will spring up instantly!
That was how you can easily reveal passwords of Wi-Fi networks you’ve used on your Mac. Veteran users of OS X won’t find anything special in this, but people who’ve just switched to a Mac or have been using it for a long time without having a brush with Keychain should find it helpful.
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Did You Know
123456 is the most common email password.