Forgetting a Wi-Fi Network

After you’ve connected to a Wi-Fi network once, your iPad will try to automatically connect to it in the future. This can be handy the next time you need to use that particular Wi-Fi network. However, if you find your iPad trying to latch on to a Wi-Fi network that you don’t want to join, you can have your iPad forget that network. Forgetting a network is especially useful when a Wi-Fi connection is very slow or doesn’t work at all (many Wi-Fi networks in hotels or airports allow you to connect but require payment, for example).

To forget a Wi-Fi network, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.

  2. Tap Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Networks settings screen appears, as shown earlier in Figure 9-1 ...

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