Learn how to use your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to display a QR code for the current or previously connected Wi-Fi network, and have others join that network by scanning the QR code.
Learn how to scan QR codes on images saved in your iPhone’s Photos app or sent via iMessage or WhatsAp without using another device or printing them out.
The built-in Camera app on iPhone and iPad can automatically detect, highlight, and scan a QR code. However, if it isn’t able to recognize, read, or scan QR codes, the solutions below should fix this issue in no time.
Find out how to create a QR code on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to easily share various pieces of information with others.
Check out these four easy ways to share Wi-Fi password from your iPhone or iPad to an Android device, such as a phone or tablet.
Instagram has kicked off a global rollout of scannable QR codes for profiles in its mobile app for iPhone and iPad after launching the same feature in a limited fashion in Japan last year.
After you log into a Wi-Fi network on your iPhone, it will remember that network and connect to it automatically when in range. As you might come to expect, this means your handset keeps a database of previously used Wi-Fi networks. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t allow users to access this information on their own devices out of the box.
If your iPhone is jailbroken, then you may be excited to learn that there’s a way around this frustrating quandary. A newly released and free jailbreak app dubbed WiFi List by iOS developer Itaybre consolidates all of your previously used Wi-Fi networks, their passwords, and more valuable information about them into one convenient place for future reference.
Apple may be working on a new mobile payment feature that would permit iPhone customers to make payments with Apple Pay using either QR codes or traditional bar codes.
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp yesterday announced several new features.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is testing a new feature for easier contact adding via QR codes.
Just last week, we showed you a jailbreak tweak that could generate a QR code for quickly and easily sharing your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot with another user, whether they were using iOS or another mobile operating system such as Android.
But now, a similar QR code-based jailbreak tweak called WiFiQR by iOS developer KingPuffDaddi has been released for sharing your currently-connected Wi-Fi network with others using comparable means to the tweak we showed you last week.
Personal Hotspot is an indispensable feature of my iPhone that I use virtually every day as I move out of range of Wi-Fi, and while Apple has made it super easy to pair other iOS devices with the tap of a button, the same can’t be said about non-iOS devices, which often necessitate that you enter the hotspot’s password manually.
If you’re lazy like me and hate having to take the aforementioned steps when you or a friend attempts to connect a new device, then you just might come to appreciate a new and free jailbreak tweak called HotspotQR by iOS developer KingPuffdaddi.