Hide WiFi SSID on IPads

Question

Hello,

we want do hide a open Wifi SSID on ios devices.

With this custom configuration profile it doesn´t work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>PayloadContent</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>AutoJoin</key>
            <false/>
            <key>HIDDEN_NETWORK</key>
            <true/>
            <key>PayloadDescription</key>
            <string>Hide WiFi SSID</string>
            <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
            <string>WiFi XXXX</string>
            <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
            <string>com.apple.wifi.managed.XXXX</string>
            <key>PayloadType</key>
            <string>com.apple.wifi.managed</string>
            <key>PayloadUUID</key>
            <string>XXXX</string>
            <key>PayloadVersion</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>ProxyType</key>
            <string>None</string>
            <key>SSID_STR</key>
            <string>SSID</string>
        </dict>
    </array>
    <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
    <string>WiFi Hide SSID</string>
    <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
    <string>XXXX.WiFi.SSID.01</string>
    <key>PayloadOrganization</key>
    <string>XXXX</string>
    <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key>
    <false/>
    <key>PayloadType</key>
    <string>Configuration</string>
    <key>PayloadUUID</key>
    <string>XXXX</string>
    <key>PayloadVersion</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

We want do prevent spezific users to connect this "open" WiFi Network...

Any help?

Answer 1

@Markus Männl ， Based on my understanding, for the "Hidden network" in WiFi setting. if we set it as enable, it makes the device to connect to the network even when it is not broadcasting in SSID. That is to say, we can use this to let some specific users to access this hidden WiFi.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/wi-fi-settings-ios#basic-profiles

In General, to hide a WiFi network, we need to disable the network's SSID by disabling SSID Broadcast option on the WiFi.

From your description, it seems you want to prevent some users to connect the open WiFI network. Currently I can only think that we can disable SSID Broadcast on the WiFI side and deploy the profile from Intune to the users who need this open WiFi.

Hope it can help.

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Answer 2

Oh, on learn.microsoft.com it seems like so...

On developer.apple.com -> "If true, defines this network as hidden"

Answer 3

it really is like that, but unfortunately I still don't have a solution, for hidding a SSID. :-(