Hi everyone,
I'm developing an enterprise iOS application and need to access the WiFi connection channel. I understand that Apple's privacy and security policies restrict direct access to certain network details, including the WiFi connection channel.
After some research, I found that this data might be accessible via the private API MobileWiFi.framework. However, when I tried to use this framework, I encountered the following error:
Missing com.apple.wifi.manager-access entitlement
I reached out to Apple regarding this entitlement, but they were not familiar with it, suggesting it might be deprecated.
Here are my questions:
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Is there an official or supported way to access the WiFi connection channel in an enterprise iOS app?
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If not, is there any workaround or additional steps required to use the MobileWiFi.framework without encountering the entitlement error?
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Are there any specific entitlements or provisioning profile configurations that I need to be aware of to resolve this issue?
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
No.
For a list of Wi-Fi APIs on iOS, see TN3111 iOS Wi-Fi API overview. Notably, getting channel information is not in that list.
If you’re working in an enterprise environment there is an alternative you might pursue: Rather than do this on the client, do it in your Wi-Fi infrastructure. That is, stand up a web service that returns the Wi-Fi channel for the client and then invoke that web server from your app.
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