Remote router’s password used with SSID

Calling all Wyze community members, I need help! I have several Wyze cameras setup at a remote vacation home thousands of miles away which is on its own router’s SSID/password. The router recently died and I would like to have a family member at the remote location replace the failed router with a new router using the same existing SSID and password. My problem is that while I can remember the SSID, I unfortunately misplaced/forgot the password that I used for the SSID when I initially installed the cameras at the remote location. I do not wish to provide this family member with my Wyze account details to reinstall all the cameras at the remote location because my Wyze account has access to many more Wyze cameras and other Wyze products. Is there any way in which I can retrieve the remote router’s password for the SSID which I used during the initial camera setup?

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I know how to do this on Android, but I see you say you have iOS so I am going to copy the steps from an AI about how to do this on an iPhone for you…

If that doesn’t work, hopefully an iOS user will respond with their exact steps to do it, but just in case nobody replies for a while, that should hopefully be how you do it on an iPhone.

Then you can tell them to use that same password and the cameras should all connect again!

That’s assuming you did connect your phone to that network at some point in the past.

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Thanks for your response. I unfortunately no longer see that network/SSID as an option to choose from within my list of WiFis. I tried to manually enter the SSID but that didn’t work. Was wondering if the Wyze app itself would provide access to where it stores the password - although I understand that would not be a secure thing to do. Clutching at straws here.

I doubt Wyze keeps the SSID and passwords info anywhere. There is another way to retrieve an old password but you need to be on a Mac and have iCloud. I will assume that you are on a Mac and you have synced your iPhone to iCloud.

Go to System Settings and click on Passwords:

then click on details:

click on WiFi…


and a list of all WiFi networks will pop up. Scroll down until you see the network in question and hover over the password dots to see the password.

Hope this helps.

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UPDATE: So I just remembered that I previously used my Windows PC (don’t have a Mac) on the now dead router at the remote location. I hauled out that PC and ran the Command Prompt with Admin privileges to display the historical password in the Security Settings > Key Content field using this command:

netsh wlan show profile “insert network name here” key=clear

Hallelujah!! The password has revealed itself!

BTW, have you ever looked back at an old password and thought “What the hell was I thinking?!” :slight_smile: Is it any wonder that I couldn’t remember it!

Thank you everyone for forcing me to think out of the box.

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Glad you figured it out.

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By the way, you can do this yourself. You can use your current location and its network to setup the distant router replacement. Simply plug it wired into your current router, and configure it. Then connect to it using your phone for instance, to insure the connection works. Then box it and ship it. Once plugged and wired to the cable modem, all the devices should reconnect to the Internet.

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That’s what Password Managers are for. Almost all of my passwords are long and cryptic. No way to remember them. They are also not reused for other sites. An example of a password (modified a bit from reality): F%*t]g~Z,S2g’<9m7N`Gb

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Yes, that is exactly my plan which is why I wanted to retrieve the password of the dud router.

There’s actually a way to do it via the windows GUI too but either way works. It varies slightly with windows version but they all allow it.

Good. Great. Sometimes we chime on with a tip that is useful for an unaffected reader. We hope some day if they have a similar problem, they will remember the tip.