About the wi-fi qr code
The code contains the network name, the security type and the password, in the format both Android and iOS understand. A guest points their camera at it and gets a prompt to join - no dictating a password across a room.
The password is written into the code itself. That means anyone who can photograph the code can read the password out of it, so print it for the people you want on the network, and put it inside rather than in a window.
Frequently asked questions
- Is anything I enter sent to a server?
- No. The QR code is generated by JavaScript running on your own device, and nothing you type - a Wi-Fi password, a phone number, a contact card - is uploaded, stored or logged. You can disconnect from the network after the page loads and it keeps working.
- Can someone get my password from the code?
- Yes, and this is the thing to understand before printing one. The password is in the code, not hidden by it - any QR scanner will show it as text. Treat the printed code exactly as you would the written password.
- Does it work on both iPhone and Android?
- Yes. Both read the standard WIFI: format from the camera app. On older Android versions you may need to scan from the Wi-Fi settings screen rather than the camera.
- My password has a semicolon or a comma in it. Is that a problem?
- No. Those characters separate fields in the Wi-Fi format, so they are escaped automatically. A tool that does not escape them produces a code that joins with a truncated password, which is a common and confusing failure.
- Do these codes expire, or need an account?
- No. The code contains the content itself rather than a link to us, so there is nothing to expire, nothing to track and no service that can stop working. Once you have downloaded it, it will keep scanning forever.
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How your data is handled
Everything happens on your device. There is no upload, no storage and no logging. Closing the tab clears everything you entered.