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A new bug with iphones that will confuse and breaks your wifi if you connect to a oddly named wifi network

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You can fix it but it will be a headache Don't give you wifi some unusual like ( with some random characters and symbols) It might break your iphone's wifi.  Apple insider  says that security researcher  Carl Shou has  discovered  a naming bug that 'breaks' WiFi on iOS devices. Give your network an SSID like "%p%s%s%s%s%n" and your iPhone will lose WiFi functionality. You can get it back by resetting your network settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings), but that's clearly a pain if you just wanted to avoid using cellular data. The cause isn't clear at this point, but  BleepingComputer  speculated that it might be a string formatting flaw. Simply put, iOS might confuse the % entries with programming commands and variables. Schou noted that he regularly uses names like this to mess with "poorly developed devices." He tested the bug with iOS 14.4.2, but it was still a problem as of  iOS 14.6 . We've asked Appl...