iPhone Won’t Connect To WPA Network

October 5th, 2009  |  Published in ASP.NET  |  10 Comments

I’ve had the annoying problem ever since I got my iPhone that I finally resolved today.  Basically, we have a corp0rate wireless network that is WPA secured.  My iPhone detects the network automatically, but when I put the TKIP password in, it says it can’t join the wireless network.

I tried to create a manual one under “Other”, but I kept getting the same error.

I couldn’t tell the iPhone to “forget” the network since I hadn’t joined it yet.

The secret here is to reset all your network settings by going to Settings / General / Reset.

In this menu, select “Reset Network Settings”.  Accept the warning and a reboot will happen.

Now, go back into wireless settings and even though your network might be picked up automatically, do not configure it.  Go to Other and set it up manually selecting the appropriate type of WPA authentication.  That should do it.

Now I can connect my iPhone to SharePoint.  Perfect.

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  1. Brandon says:

    November 2nd, 2009 at 9:46 pm (#)

    Thanks man! This worked for my girlfriend’s iPod touch. Saw your link in a forum. Thanks again!

  2. Sanci says:

    November 30th, 2009 at 1:10 pm (#)

    I had the same problem and it worked for me too! Thanks :)

  3. vivi says:

    December 10th, 2009 at 1:57 am (#)

    Many thanks i just click on “forget this network setting and it worked” Cheers, vivi

  4. Sinéad says:

    December 22nd, 2009 at 3:10 pm (#)

    Cheers for this, got this working! :)

  5. Brock says:

    December 29th, 2009 at 12:14 am (#)

    Thank You SOOOOOO Much… I was beginning to get very frustrated!! It works great now =)

  6. Nolonger Frustrated says:

    January 3rd, 2010 at 10:57 am (#)

    Thanks! A simple fix but it would have taken HOURS and HOURS for me to even think about it!

  7. kiran says:

    January 20th, 2010 at 3:39 pm (#)

    What about WPA2 and AES , can you please post the fix for this as well.

    Thanks alot in Advance…

  8. dp99 says:

    February 3rd, 2010 at 4:33 pm (#)

    Didnt work for me unfortunately :(

  9. Burke says:

    February 3rd, 2010 at 4:45 pm (#)

    Kiran

    I’m sorry, but I’m not a networking expert, so I don’t know what the official stance is for support on those two different kinds of encryption. I rather stumbled on this fix for me by happenstance.

    dp99

    I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. I actually had to do it twice if I recall correctly before it worked for me.

  10. Lorraine says:

    February 7th, 2010 at 3:28 am (#)

    Many thanks – had to do it twice -but it worked!!

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