Wi-Fi Details

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Created Jun ’22

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I'm building a network testing app, and for that I need to verify some information about the network.

Specifically, right now, I'm looking for the ability to verify that the Wi-Fi network that my iPhone is connected to, is running the right standard - specifically I'm looking for 802.11ac.

On my mac I can alt-click the Wi-Fi symbol to get "PHY-function: 802.11ac". I would presumably get this information through the activePHYMode function. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corewlan/cwinterface/1426471-activephymode

However it does not appear that this function is available on iOS. Could it be made available?

-- Frederik

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’22

For a summary of the Wi-Fi APIs available on iOS currently, see TN3111 iOS Wi-Fi API overview. AFAICT none of those APIs will give you that level of detail. If you’d like to see such support added in the future, I encourage you to file an enhancement request describing your requirements.

Please post your bug number, just for the record.

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Answer 2

FrederikJuul OP

Jun ’22

Submitted as https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/10343298

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’22

Reading that bug (FB10343298) it wasn’t clear if your suggestion was to add an API or for a user-level feature. Which is it?

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FrederikJuul OP

Sep ’22

Thanks for the feedback. I'd like to access it through an API, so that would be it. I'll update the ticket to reflect that.

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