Apple Blocks wifi scans from apps so there is no good wifi analyzer for iOS
I would recommend a cheap android with Wi-Fi man on it to keep on the truck if you are not a fan of Ubiquiti there are 100's of others to pick from on android On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 12:23 AM Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "Apple Airport Utility" has some very basic wifi scanning abilities. > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:22 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > > OK, I’m not an Apple person. Not a big ideology thing, just don’t own > any Apple devices except for an old eMac in the attic and my wife’s very > old iPad. > > > > > > > > So I’ve been using Ubiquiti’s WiFiman app on my phone. I’m not a big > Ubiquiti person either, but the app is really quick and easy to use, so I > guess it appeals to my laziness. I tried a few others and they seemed > fussy and didn’t give me the info I wanted and WiFiman just works. > > > > > > > > Apparently the iOS version of WiFiman doesn’t have any WiFi features, so > it would be useless to me. I’m seeing conflicting information about Apple > supposedly locking all 3rd party app vendors out from accessing the WiFi > info. Yet there seem to be iOS WiFi analyzers out there. > > > > > > > > Is there a good WiFi analyzer for iOS? And if it’s true that Apple > locks them out from accessing the WiFi chip info, how do they do it? Or is > there some official Apple app you have to use? I’m not talking about the > info you get in Settings > WiFi when you go to join a WiFi network, that’s > very limited, not enough to optimize your router placement and > configuration. > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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