iPhone keeps saying "incorrect password" when connecting to wifi

Reset Your router shut it off for 30 seconds to a minute then turn it back on and whah lah it worked for me your welcome :)

General>Reset>Reset Network Settings on your iphone

It could be the router. I had the same problem with my iPad, which suddenly would not connect and said the password was incorrect when it wasn't. I logged into my router control panel, and the Wireless control setup. Then changed the setting of the WiFi network to None on the security options. Then logged back in with the iPad without the need for any password. That worked. Then I went back in to the Router Wireless Control and changed the Security option back to WPA2. Then logged back in to WiFi on the iPad, this time putting the password back in when prompted for it. This time it accepted the password. Bingo!

I reset the network settings on my phone, and then restarted the router and then turned my phone WiFi on and it worked, but not sure if this will work for others but it worked for me so is worth a try.

One last thing to check to see if your phone will connect. Disable password in your router and make it an open network and try connecting for troubleshooting purposes

I think this problem is related to the country and wifi channel, change the country to USA in wifi settings and set wifi channel to 11 or Auto, I think this would solve your problem

iPhone 6s won’t connect to wifi, always wrong password.

So this annoying problem came to me too. I did a lot of tests The situation was

(1) My iPhone 6s could not connect to any 2.4GHz wifi. It complained always about wrong password. By any I mean all my 4 working wifi routers and all the wifi at my friends places, public libraries, train stations, airports etc.

(2) Removing password on the router just made the iPhone change the error message to “unable to connect”.

(3) When I place the iPhone just beside the antenna of the router, within 10 cm, it can connect without problem, with or without password. Tested on several different routers, also on wireless personal hotspots (tethering) from other iPhones and Androids.

This (3) was the most strange and unexplainable thing, refer to (6) and (7) below.

(4) It has no problem with 5 GHz wifi, no problem at all. Also with the same SSID and the same encryption protocol and password.

By now, it is already clear that this is not a software problem. So the next one was not necessary.

(5) Reset the phone to factory settings (or any other resets) and upgrade to newest version IOS did not change anything. Please don’t suggest resetting the router, I can’t do that for all routers in the world.

You might think that the phone must have a defect 2.4 GHz antenna. But then

(6) It could see all 2.4 GHz wifi as good as another “good” iPhone 6s could.

So receiving ability was good enough.

(7) When I set both this iPhone 6s and another good iPhone 6s as personal hotspots (tethering), both turned out to be on 2.4 GHz (You can’t on an iPhone really specify which one you want, can you? I can choose wifi band for Personal Hotspot on my Android phone), and measured the sending strength, they were exactly the same.

So sending power had no problem either.

(8) Wifi client could only connect to the personal hotspot on the good iPhone, not the defect one.

(9) Apple shop / Service Center tested the iPhone with all possible devices but could not find any problem. Well, not surprising. Although I did not have any of the equipments they had, I still think that my troubleshooting was as good as theirs.

After almost one month long struggle, Apple finally decided to replace my iPhone with a brand new one.

So conclusion: iPhone’s 2.4 wireless network can easily break down, reason unknown.

If you guys experience similar issue, and when you go to Apple shops, the phone then can connect to wifi there without problem, it’s because in Apple shops they have 5 GHz. Make them try it on 2.4 GHz wifi, and if they can’t make the phone connected, insist on having a replacement.

One solution to "wrong password" when connecting to a known wifi.

Go to router settings and check for MAC id filter.

Get the WIFI id from your iphone and enter the same in the router settings and save it.

PS: In many cases, the wifi id and the bluetooth id are almost identical except for the last digit. If already entered in the router settings recheck the id's again.

Change your router's security mode to "WPA2 - PSK".

99% this will solve this problem.

FIXED IT!!! Couldn’t connect to Asus 2.4Ghz, only 5Ghz, said stupid “incorrect password”. Issue with 5Ghz is that the range is limited and i have a wall made of block. Also knew issue was somehow related only to apple, because I own wifi camera, sonos speaker and google home and they had no issue connecting to 2.4ghz.

Researching issue, read that this error could be fixed if u go to ur router admin page (ie 192.168.x.x). There, go to Wireless > advance settings and somewhere in the options change bandwidth from 40 mhz to 20 mhz.

Mine said 40/20mhz.. so i changed it to 20 mhz and now “incorrect password” error is no more. Hope this helps others

There are very old and extremely generic instructions provided here. For example, it hasn't been possible to downgrade iOS (especially to 8) for a very long time. All of these suggestions assume the phone is at fault. Try to power off/power on the home WiFi router, or make sure the router has the latest security updates / firmware updates. A lot of home routers suddenly freeze or partially crash when many devices are connected or too many of them are downloading at the same time.

heat the wifi ic for 1 min and you will not have the same problem

I had this exact same issue with my iphone 5c. Put the phone is DFU mode and do a itunes restore. Its a software bug

POSSIBLE SOLUTION: (Or at least treating the "symptoms")

I noticed sometimes my iPad would actually start to connect, and then it would immediately drop, as if the router was doing some kind of dynamic switching that was knocking it off. I experimented with several dynamic switching options in my router configuration and finally had success when turning off what my ActionTec router calls SmartSteering — the configuration that lets it switch clients dynamically back and forth between 2.4G and 5G.

I turned this off, which created separate MyNetwork-2.4G and MyNetwork-5G wifi networks. And then, what do you know: connecting my iPad to the 2.4G network works great! And connecting it to the 5G network (with the exact same password) fails every time with that "incorrect password" prompt. So at least in my case, it was a "connect to 5G" problem disguised as a password error. Worth a try.

You need to go on the device that your trying to connect from (eg: Huawei, go to Hotspot Settings > Device list> Allow devices to connect > Allow Devices

this should fix the problem if you kept getting the “incorrect password “ error or it connected you for a few seconds and disconnected your device

This worked for me when both of my updated Iphone 6’s would not connect to the home network due to a failed password. Other devices connecting fine with my known password. I went in to the wireless router and changed the bandwidth of the 5g from 40 to 80Mhz. BAM! All is working just fine. I had read on a forum change from 20 to 40 or 80, I was already 40 so went to 80. Hope this works for you, I spent hours incredibly frustrated by this.

I had the same problem. But i found the problem. I checked the blacklist of my wifi and it turned out my wifi had been automatically adding connected devices to the blacklist. You can check on the user website http://192.168.0.1

It’s not your phone’s problem it’s your network. Try restarting your router and if that doesn’t work reset it. That should normally fix the problem.

Iphone S5 my incorrect password wifi

Well, that sounds like a real pain in the neck. But you can try typing in the correct Wi-Fi password again. If all goes well, that's great. If the iPhone keeps saying "Incorrect Wi-Fi password" even if you enter the correct password, it could be an iOS problem. In fact, this is a problem many iPhone users have encountered, that's ok, please read the following three parts to find a suitable solution.

When you find that your iPhone keeps saying incorrect WiFi password constantly in iOS 13, the first thing to do is make sure you’ve entered the right one before taking further steps to fix the problem. We know that once the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi password, it will automatically remember the Wi-Fi password. To find your correct Wi-Fi password, you can view the Wi-Fi password on any iPhone device that successfully connects to your WiFi. Or if you’ve ever connected to the WiFi password on your computer, you can also find saved WiFi password on Windows 10 computer.

If your password is case-sensitive, be sure to properly enable case locking or other language keyboards when entering your password, otherwise, you will see an "Incorrect WiFi password" error. For example, if your password is Nice1862 and you type nice1862, your WiFi network will not allow you to join the network because N is uppercase and you treat it as lowercase.

If you enter the correct password, your iPhone still shows the incorrect WiFi password, which may be a problem with the iPhone itself. So you can attempt to fix the iOS 13 device itself by using the following methods.

Method 1: Restart your iPhone 11

Even if you enter the correct Wi-Fi password, your iPhone will warn you of the incorrect Wi-Fi password. In this case, you can try rebooting your iPhone 11, and in most cases, rebooting the device will help you connect your Wi-Fi network to your iOS 13. This is the first very simple way.

Method 2: Reset Network Settings

If your iPhone says an incorrect WiFi password, you can try to reset your Network Settings. Because resetting your network Settings usually fixes a number of annoying connection problems in iOS 13, often including vague errors such as "network password error" and "unable to connect to the network." To do this, you need to click Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings > Enter your passcode > Reset Network Settings. However, the disadvantage of using this method is that all network Settings will be removed and restored to the default factory settings.

Method 3: Disable Wi-Fi Assist

To fix the "iPhone Says Incorrect WiFi Password" error, you can try to disable the Wi-Fi Assist. Here are the steps.

Go to Settings and click Cellular. On the cellular mobile web page, pull down the list of apps until you find Wi-Fi Assist, then click "Wi-Fi Assist" from on to off state.

Method 4: Change the Wi-Fi Password

Changing your password may go a long way toward helping you resolve your "iPhone Says Incorrect WiFi Password" error. So you can change your Wi-Fi password on the router’s web page.

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