{"id":7207,"date":"2021-06-21T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:49:47","slug":"iphone-bug-that-can-break-wi-fi-is-easy-to-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/iphone-bug-that-can-break-wi-fi-is-easy-to-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Bug That Can Break Wi-Fi Is Easy To Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bug discovered by a reverse engineer, Carl Schou causes the Wi-Fi functionality of the iPhone to break when connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot with a specific name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This bug can be easily prevented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to Settings, then select General, Reset, and finally Reset Network Settings after which users will reconfigure their network settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prevent the bug from occurring, user&#8217;s can switch to Settings, click Wi-Fi and make sure auto-join hotspots are set to &#8220;Ask to join&#8221; or &#8220;Never.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/iphone-bug-makes-it-easy-for-someone-to-break-your-wi-fi-heres-the-fix-and-how-to-prevent-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug that causes the Wi-Fi functionality of the iPhone to break can be prevented easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[202,47],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7253,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}