Thursday, January 25, 2018

Pixel 2 with Android 8.0 - Wifi automagically turned on and auto-connect to trusted Wifi network

Heres something cool I came across - automatically let your phone turn it's Wifi service on, and connect to a trusted network when you come back to the location where you connected to your trusted Wifi network.

So I left home, where I have a trusted Wifi network which the Pixel 2 will auto-connect to. I turn off my Wifi just because its one less energy-consuming component running. Some time later, I come back home. Normally at this point Id have to remember to turn on my Wifi service, and then wait for the phone to connect. If I forget, I might end up using my Cell data without realizing it at home.

now, If you have location services on Pixel 2 turned on (let's face it, for anything useful these days Google services religiously prompt you to give them location history and search history access) & if you set the option to enable this feature in settings....

Pixel 2 will:


  1. recognize when you are in the location where you have a saved, auto-connect trusted Wifi network on
  2. Turn on your Wifi radio
  3. Auto-connect to your saved auto-connect wifi network

Essentially - I can go from this:




To this:


without doing anything except walking into my home.

Now that's the future!

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