Suppressing Web Sheet for Captive Wi-Fi iOS 9

What’s you’re high-level goal here?

CNSetSupportedSSIDs

was part of a group of APIs designed to make it possible for hotspot helper apps to work on iOS. It’s been replaced by NEHotspotHelper, which provides a much better way for hotspot helper apps to do that job. However, there’s no one-to-one replacement for

CNSetSupportedSSIDs

; instead, the hotspot helper is intimately tied into the hotspot authentication process and the web sheet only shows up when that process has exhausted all other possibilities.

So, if you’re building a hotspot helper, you should use NEHotspotHelper. If you’re building something else, please explain more about your goals.

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Hi,

Did CNSetSupportedSSIDs deprecation means it won't work anymore on iOS 9 ?

I have an app compatible iOS 7+ using CNSetSupportedSSIDs. It works well on iOS 7 and iOS 8 but returns me false on iOS 9.

If CNSetSupportedSSIDs does not work on iOS 9 anymore, does NEHotspotHelper provides a way avoid popping a captive portal and let the app handle the authentication ?

My goal is to provide access to a captive network but only for a specific set of users, so I need to control authentication through the app.