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How to recover wifi passwords?I'm migrating from an old Mac computer to a shiny new MacBook Pro and want to be able to join my brother's network, except we don't remember the password! But my old computer can connect. Is there any way to dredge up that password from Mac OS X so I can enter it anew? I do have Leopard running on both systems... Until recently, I would have said "no, it's stored in an encrypted fashion", but in fact I was poking around on my Mac a while back and found that, yes, you can indeed recover ostensibly hidden password information from wifi networks on your Mac. Here's how ya do it in Leopard... Open up Apple --> System Preferences... --> Network, and click on "Airport" then "Advanced...":  Once you click on that, you'll now see a list of all the networks to which you've connected:  I'll show you the password to "Aerie" here. It's easy, too: double-click on the network name then click on "Show password" and, voila! There it is:  There is a nuance to this, however. Not exactly sure why, but sometimes you click on "Show password" and it shows you asterisks, while other times it'll show you the password, as demonstrated. Ah well, it's better than nothing, right? Hope that helps you out!
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(Article 7699,
Written by Dave Taylor)
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I'm having trouble finding wifi passwords for my iPhone Posted by: Evin at December 25, 2008 1:27 PMhow do u find wifi password on pc computer? Posted by: hmm at January 16, 2009 12:57 PMi have netgear as a wirlles network and i cant find the password for wireless because i want to get the password for my ipod touch Posted by: idk at February 7, 2009 5:24 PMhai my mobile is included wifi how can find wifi password. wifi name is TFS please find me. Posted by: srinivas at February 25, 2009 3:15 AMit's not working!!! Posted by: anthony at May 5, 2009 7:19 PMThank you!!!!! we have been trying for MONTHS to find out our wifi password, even our ip couldnt help us. Posted by: Chelsea at February 12, 2010 6:43 PMHi, same prob. diffrent system - WINDOWS ! can you please help me out with this ? Trying to find out my WiFi pass on my iphone 10x Jo Posted by: Jonathan at March 13, 2010 10:42 PMThis does not work on Snow Leopard. The show password box is grayed out. If you click on the password, it clears it. Posted by: Jamie at March 24, 2010 1:47 PMHey thanks, but it would work perfectly fine if it werent because the password and show password are in GREY not BLACK so i cant click on them! any ideas?? Posted by: Alfonrock at July 15, 2010 11:20 AMTo everyone whose "Show Password" button is greyed out, go to "Application >> Utilities >> Keychain", then search for the WiFi network, click "Show Password", enter your password (this program is what gets called every time any other program needs access to password protected stuff, so it's secure), and it will show you the password. Cheers! Posted by: A. Nony Mouse at August 14, 2010 1:23 AMOh, in case any one needs a bit more info: here (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2195841) from Apple user forums or here (http://adamriggins.com/2009/11/16/how-to-view-saved-wifi-passwords-in-osx-snow-leopard/) for detailed info Posted by: A. Nony Mouse at August 14, 2010 1:29 AMThank you A. Nony Mouse! Much time saved!!! Posted by: Peema at October 12, 2010 12:06 AMTHANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION OF THE PASSCODE DEAL!!! :) Posted by: Kristal at October 26, 2010 5:44 PMThe "show password" option is grayed out on my macbook. Posted by: Jeff Gonzales at November 29, 2010 3:00 AMI recently upgraded to OS X Lion and this method does not work. Double clicking on my network does nothing. You're right, Viv. It's changed. Here's the updated article: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/recover_wifi_password_mac_os_x_107_lion.html Posted by: Dave Taylor at November 5, 2011 11:45 AMA. Nony Mouse's steps work like a charm in OSX leopard and Lion. Thanks for sharing! Posted by: Kwami at November 26, 2011 7:41 AMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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