Get the name of the Wi-Fi network to which the device is currently associated

There are more and more limitations to such information access (because it lets you get information on user location, hence privacy issue).

This may provide some hint to a solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63130232/cncopycurrentnetworkinfo-not-working-with-ios-14
or this older (5 years !) thread:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/11807

or this (but that's more general conditions than practical solution)
https ://blog.appnation. co/how-to-access-wifi-ssid-on-ios-13-using-swift-40c4bba3c81d

Starting with iOS 14, the SSID and BSSID of the currently connected Wi-Fi network can be obtained using the fetchCurrent(completionHandler:) method of the NEHotspotNetwork class. Note that the use of fetchCurrent(completionHandler:) does not require the NEHotspotHelper entitlement.

This method returns SSID and BSSID of the current Wi-Fi network when the requesting application meets one of following 4 requirements:

1. application is using CoreLocation API and has user's authorization to access precise location.

2. application has used NEHotspotConfiguration API to configure the current Wi-Fi network.

3. application has active VPN configurations installed.

4. application has active NEDNSSettingsManager configuration installed.

An application will receive nil if it fails to meet any of the above 4 requirements.
An application will receive nil if does not have the "com.apple.developer.networking.wifi-info" capability.

There is also an example of both fetchCurrent and CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo out in Configuring a Wi-Fi Accessory to Join the User’s Network.


Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
meaton3@apple.com

Thanks for your answers. I better understand the operation.

But it's a lot of dev and permissions to request to just get the SSID of the current wifi...