Wai-Fi
Not claimedWai-Fi lives in your menu bar and puts your Mac on the Wi-Fi you mean
By Koji Chikazawa · UtilitiesWhy we expect it: Clear value and a careful, well-explained description make Wai-Fi a focused tool for switching networks automatically.
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Wai-Fi lives in your menu bar and puts your Mac on the Wi-Fi you mean.
Say you're on a shoot. You power on the mobile router you use for work, but your Mac stays on your home Wi-Fi. With Wai-Fi, your Mac switches to that router shortly after it appears — once Wai-Fi has made sure it's really there. Turn the router off and macOS goes back to your usual network.
Auto Switch - Turn on Auto Switch for a network. When it appears and it's higher in your priority than the current network, Wai-Fi switches to it - A network that only flickers into view is ignored; Wai-Fi confirms it before switching - After a switch it waits a moment, so your Mac doesn't bounce back and forth - If a switch fails twice, Auto Switch rests for a while instead of retrying forever
Your choice comes first - Pick a network yourself and Wai-Fi leaves it alone for a while (30 minutes by default) - Pause Auto Switch from the menu: 15 minutes, 1 hour, until tomorrow, or until you resume
One glance at the menu bar - The current network, signal strength and link speed - The menu bar icon takes the color of the network you're on - Saved networks that are nearby, at a glance
Your own priority - Drag to reorder, or hover and choose "First" - Undo with ⌘Z. The main actions also work from the keyboard and with VoiceOver - Wai-Fi's order is Wai-Fi's own; it doesn't change your macOS settings
Make each network your own - Choose an icon (home, camera, phone, office and more), a color and a display name
About passwords macOS doesn't let apps use the Wi-Fi passwords it has saved. So for each network you want Wai-Fi to switch to, save its password in Wai-Fi once. It's kept in this Mac's keychain and used only to join that network; it never appears in logs or exports. Your usual network — the one macOS goes back to — needs no password in Wai-Fi.
Privacy - Nothing is sent over the internet. No account, no analytics, no ads - Location access is used only because macOS requires it to read Wi-Fi network names. Wai-Fi never reads where your Mac is
Demo Mode No second network handy? Try Auto Switch with pretend networks. Your real settings aren't touched.
Good to know - While AirPlay, screen mirroring, Sidecar or Universal Control is in use, macOS may refuse to switch networks (Wai-Fi tries again later) - The first time Wai-Fi switches, macOS asks whether "Wai-Fi" may change Wi-Fi settings; switching networks needs this - Work or school Wi-Fi that signs in with a user name (802.1X) can't be switched to
In English and Japanese.
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