WiFi QR Where to find the Wi-Fi QR code on iPhone
There isn't one to find. iPhone's Settings app has no screen that turns a Wi-Fi network into a QR code the way some Android phones do, so the only way to get one is an app that draws it for you, like WiFi QR.
Where to look
Settings, Wi-Fi, tap the (i) next to the network: name, security, a password field with an eye icon to reveal it, a toggle for Private Address. No QR, no Share button that turns into one. By comparison, Android's Settings has a real "Share" action that draws the code on the spot. iPhone has nothing like it.
What the Camera app can do instead
The Camera app reads a Wi-Fi QR code someone else made — point it at one, a yellow banner shows up, tap it to join. That covers half of what people mean by "wifi qr code on iphone": they expect the Camera to also build one. It doesn't. Reading and making turned out to be two separate jobs, and Apple only shipped the first.
The one Apple feature that comes close
iPhone can hand your Wi-Fi password to another Apple device. Bring the two close, the person has to already be in your Contacts, and a card pops up offering to share. No QR code shows up anywhere in that flow, and it does nothing at all for an Android phone, a smart TV, or a guest who isn't in your address book yet.
So where do you actually get one
In WiFi QR, open the Generate tab, fill in Network Name (SSID), Security Type and Password, and the code draws itself above the form. Use current fills in the name of the network you're on, never the password — iOS doesn't hand that to any app. Typing the password by hand rather than relying on autofill from a password manager is worth doing: one wrong character and the code looks fine but nobody can join with it.
For example, for a network called Office Guest with the password Coffee2026!, here's exactly what the app builds and how big the resulting code is, computed from the same byte-mode QR capacity table the standard uses:
| Step | Value |
|---|---|
| Text written into the code | WIFI:T:WPA;S:Office Guest;P:Coffee2026!;; |
| Length of that text | 41 bytes |
| Code shown on screen (error correction M) | QR version 3, 29 x 29 modules |
| Code when exported (error correction H) | QR version 5, 37 x 37 modules |
The exported grid is bigger (37 x 37 against 29 x 29) because WiFi QR raises the error correction level for anything you share or print — a smudge or a fold then still scans. You don't pick either number. The app just does it, which simplifies things for the user.
What you still can't get this way
- A QR code for the password of a network already saved on your phone — no app can read that, including this one. Look it up in Settings or type it in once.
- A QR code from iPhone's own password-sharing card. That feature never produces one, on any iOS version.
- Scanning from a screenshot. WiFi QR's Scan tab reads a live camera feed only; point the camera at wherever the code is actually printed or displayed.
Questions and answers
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