Your iPhone Is About to Get a Simple Yet Convenient New Feature

When you try to log in to public Wi-Fi for the first time, be it at a hotel, airport or a coffee shop, you’re often prompted to accept its terms and conditions or fill out a quick form to authenticate yourself. It’s a necessary annoyance.

Well, when Apple rolls out iOS 26 in approximately two months, it’s going to give your iPhone a simple new trick that promises to make this login process a little bit easier … specifically if you have multiple Apple devices.

A easier Wi-Fi login experience

As first spotted by Creative Strategies analyst Max Weinbach (and then reported by MacRumors), iOS 26 will allow you to quickly sync sign-in details for captive Wi-Fi networks across your iPhone and iPad.

This means that when you log in to any captive Wi-Fi network — which is a public Wi-Fi that requires filling out a web form to be granted access — on your iPhone, you’ll be able to share those details with another Apple device, like an iPad, without having to fill out that web form again.

Basically, it aims to streamline the Wi-Fi log-in process across your various Apple devices.

Gear Patrol

Apple didn’t mention this feature when it unveiled the next-generation operating systems at WWDC, but it has been discovered by those with devices running the developer beta on iPhone and iPad.

And even though it hasn’t been reported yet, MacRumors suggests that this login feature is likely to come with macOS 26, too. Given that it’s more common for people to travel with an iPhone and MacBook (rather than an iPad) as their secondary device, this will make the feature even more useful.

When’s it coming?

iOS 26 will roll out to compatible iPhones this fall, likely in early September, after Apple announces the iPhone 17 lineup.

To learn more about iOS 26 and all its new features, check out Apple’s preview page.

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