To find the passwords for wireless networks, you have to click on System in the top left-hand menu. This list includes application passwords, Internet passwords, network passwords and web form passwords. When Keychain Access opens, you’ll see the list of login items by default selected in the left hand column. This is where all your saved passwords for websites, connections to network devices, etc are stored.įirst, open Keychain by either searching for it in Spotlight or going to Applications – Utilities.
All passwords, certificates and other security information is stored in the Keychain program. Luckily, it’s very easy to do this in OS X. If your computer is already connected to the network, it makes perfect sense to just find the key from there. There is no way I ever remember that password any Wifi network other than my own, so I have to get it from somewhere else. However, there are times when I need to know the password for the Wifi network, usually because I have to connect another device like my iPhone or iPad to the network. This is great because I can easily connect to those wireless networks whenever I’m in range again, even if it’s 6 months later. I tend to travel a lot and take my laptop with me everywhere I go, so I literally have over a hundred wireless networks stored on my Mac. Just about everybody who has a laptop has probably connected to several different wireless networks over the course of time.
