How to stop your Mac from auto-connecting to a Wi-Fi network<article>
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<p>Wi-Fi hotpots: As convenient as they are, they can be very annoying, as well. Especially when you're using a Mac or iPhone that's trying to connect to a hotspot when you don't want it to.</p><p>Macworld reader Martin Joseph wants to ditch one company's Wi-Fi hotspot in particular:</p>
<p>I wonder if you can figure out a way to set a Mac to never ever connect to Xfinity Wi-Fi? It would be great to eliminate this in my iPhone, too. I have found that deleting it from the list of known networks isn’t the best choice, and I usually resort to leaving it, but at lowest priority.</p>
<p>Apple's Wi-Fi network control in macOS became kind of primitive many releases ago, and then Apple made it worse, removing a few features that haven't returned. You can delete networks, as Martin notes:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3222678/wi-fi/how-to-stop-your-mac-from-auto-connecting-to-a-wi-fi-network.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to stop your Mac from auto-connecting to a Wi-Fi network
