I, often, find myself wondering what all these WiFi’s are on my phone and I think it would be useful to be able to set a nickname for a wifi network so to remember which one is which. For example “parents house” etc. What do you think?
Create a bug on Google’s official issue tracker:
https://source.android.com/docs/setup/contribute/report-bugs
I think it would be better to save WiFi geolocation, so you can view it on a map, and you don’t need to type anything.
Google location service already saves WiFi and Bluetooth locations to use them for indoor navigation, but there is no way to view that data.
I honestly doubt people are gonna be using it. At least I wouldn’t. When I turn it on it auto connects to whatever is stored so I hardly go into the setting and look at it let alone set a nickname. The only use I could think of is you wanna clear the old ones for some odd reason and you can’t remember what it is. This could also be done in just a notepad if you find yourself doing it often and even if you don’t, just delete it and add it back if required. It’s such a small use case which isn’t with taking time away from more useful features. Just my opinion.
Yeah but it wouldn’t be that hard to implement so why not
Nothing is “easy” to implement. This is a whole ass OS not someone’s passion project. If nobody needs it then it’s a bloat not a feature. Nobody would wanna waste their time on something useless when they have so much better things to do.
android is actually open-source, so you could implement this yourself and make a pull request
The question is not ‘why not’, the question is ‘why’? Because you’re still going to have to convince somebody to do it, unless you’re planning to implement it yourself.
You shall suffer my ridiculous ssid.
How did you know my ssid? You stalking me?
Why do you want to remember which one is which? Don’t they just connect automatically when in range?
Not op, but a possible use case could/would be if you live close enough to your parents and you need to switch between two auto-generated SSIDs that are very similar and locked (such as using APs from same provider) to access local devices (Such as Lights/Audio/Video).
It’s useful when you are deleting them and you don’t wanna delete one you want but can’t remember which one is plus it’s more user friendly
Gotta agree with this comment. If it’s an unknown network, and you don’t know the password, you can’t connect anyways, so who cares what it’s called. And what additional insight is gained by labeling your parents wifi ‘parents house’ when you know you can only use it at their house?
I regularly clear out saved networks and it would be nice if I could remember whose randomly generated SSID each was.
