Wi-Fi QR Code Generator
Share your Wi-Fi with a QR code: guests scan it with their phone camera and join without typing the password.
Printable card
Your card appears here as you type.
A page to print and leave out for guests: “Scan to join Wi-Fi”, the code and the network name.
Print at 100% (actual size), not “Fit to page”.
Design
Higher levels survive more damage but make a denser code.
Your QR code appears here as you type.
For a page to leave out for guests, with the network name under the code, use Download card PDF under Printable card.
Makes a QR code that joins a Wi-Fi network when a phone camera scans it, so guests do not have to type the password. It also makes a card to print and leave out, with the code, the network name and, if you choose, the password. The code and the card are made in your browser: the network name and password are never uploaded.
How to use it
- Network name (SSID) — exactly as your devices list it: capitals and spaces count. A name longer than 32 bytes gets a warning, since Wi-Fi names cannot be longer, and spaces at the start or end are kept with a notice, since they are part of the name.
- Security — WPA/WPA2/WPA3 for almost every home and office network, WEP for very old routers, or None for an open network, which needs no password.
- Password — a WPA password is 8 to 63 printable ASCII characters, or a 64-digit hex key. One outside those limits gets a warning, since the network could not have it, but the code is still made.
- Hidden network — for a network that does not broadcast its name.
The printable card is an A6 or A4 PDF headed “Scan to join Wi-Fi”, with the code and the network name below it, and the password when Print the password is on. The password is set in a monospaced font, so 0 and O, or l and 1, read apart for anyone typing it. A preview shows the card with your design. Print it at 100%, not “Fit to page”.
The code takes the same design options as the QR Code Generator, and a test reader checks that it reads back. Its Scans as text is what a phone reads from it. The design and card options are remembered on this device; the network name and password are not.
Android and the iPhone (iOS 11 and later) join a network from this kind of code, and Android's own Share button for a Wi-Fi network makes one. On a Windows PC with a camera, the Camera app reads it in its barcode mode.
What a Wi-Fi QR code holds
The code holds plain text in the WIFI: format the ZXing project defined and phone cameras read: the security type after T:, the name after S:, the password after P:, and H:true for a hidden network. A backslash goes before any \, ;, ,, : or " in the name or password, so they are not read as separators. Nothing is shortened or hidden: anyone who scans the code can read the password.
ZXing also puts double quotes around a name or password that could be read as hexadecimal, such as one made only of digits. Readers differ on quoted values: Android's newer parser keeps the quotes as part of the name or password, which would then not match the network. This tool never adds them.
WIFI:T:<WPA|WEP|nopass>;S:<name>;P:<password>;H:true;;
Examples
A home network
- Network name (SSID)
- Home
- Security
- WPA/WPA2/WPA3
- Password
- sunshine42
- Scans as
- WIFI:T:WPA;S:Home;P:sunshine42;;
Separators in the name and password
- Network name (SSID)
- Flat 4; Guest
- Security
- WPA/WPA2/WPA3
- Password
- pass:word,2026
- Scans as
- WIFI:T:WPA;S:Flat 4\; Guest;P:pass\:word\,2026;;
The semicolon, colon and comma each get a backslash in front, so the reader takes them as part of the name and password.
An open hidden network
- Network name (SSID)
- Cafe
- Security
- None
- Hidden network
- On
- Scans as
- WIFI:T:nopass;S:Cafe;H:true;;
Finding your Wi-Fi password
A device that has joined the network can show its password. The steps below follow each maker's own help pages.
- Windows 11 — in Settings, select Network & internet, then Properties, and select Show next to Wi-Fi network password. For a network saved earlier, open Manage known networks, select the network, then Show.
- Windows 10 — in Settings, select Network & Internet, Status, then Network and Sharing Center. Select your Wi-Fi network name, then Wireless Properties, and on the Security tab tick Show characters. The password is in the Network security key box.
- Mac — open the Passwords app and click Wi-Fi in the sidebar. Select the network, then hold the pointer over the dots next to Password. On macOS 13 or later, System Settings also has it: Network, Wi-Fi, Advanced, then the More button next to the network and Copy Password.
- iPhone (iOS 16 or later) — in Settings, tap Wi-Fi, then the Info button next to your network, and tap the Password field; Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode reveals it. For a network joined before, tap Edit in the Wi-Fi list first. In iOS 18 the Passwords app lists Wi-Fi passwords too.
- Android (Android 12 or later) — in Settings, tap Network and Internet, then Internet, then your network, and Share. The phone shows a QR code for the network; to read the password from it, scan it with the QR Code Scanner on another device.
With no device on the network, look for a label on the router or in its paperwork, which may show the network name and password it came with, or log in to the router's admin page or app.
Sources
- Connect to a Wi-Fi network in Windows — Microsoft Support
- Find and share your Wi-Fi password on Mac — Apple Support
- If you need help with your Wi-Fi password — Apple Support
- Find your saved Wi-Fi passwords on iPhone or iPad — Apple Support
- Connect to Wi-Fi networks on your Android device — Android Help
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See also
- QR Code Generator — to put a link, contact card or other text in a QR code.
- QR Code Scanner — to read the network and password from a Wi-Fi code someone shared.