How to forget a wifi network on your mac

It is likely that over time you have accumulated a large number of WiFi networks on your Mac that you have connected to at some point (in the mall, in the restaurant, in the institute, etc.). However, many of these wireless networks will no longer be used; in other cases, these are very slow networks, due to how congested they usually are, and you prefer to connect the Mac to your iPhone's own network, much more secure and stable. Either for this reason or because you simply want to “clean up”, whether you want to do a “general sweep” or want to skip a specific network, we will see how to do it in a simple way below.

How to forget WiFi networks in macOS

In addition to manually forgetting about wireless networks, we'll delve into how to adjust your Mac's settings around how it manages discovery and connecting to new WiFi networks. We will also see how to establish priority levels for these networks.

• First, open the "System Preferences" app. Click on the "Network" section and then "Advanced…" Select a network from the list and click the "-" icon that you see just below the list to forget / delete it

Before heading to bypass any network, you can choose to change the settings to automatically connect to a certain network and have your Mac request permission before connecting to new networks. To do this, simply check / uncheck the box next to "Automatically access this WiFi network".

Select a network you want to skip and click the "-" icon as shown below. The images correspond to the beta of macOS Mojave, but the action is similar in other versions of macOS. You can select multiple networks by holding down the Command key while clicking.

If for some reason you want your Mac to forget all networks, press cmd + A and click the - button.

Finally, if you want to set preferences of one WiFi network over another, for example, if there are two available simultaneously, you just have to drag it over the others and you will establish a personalized order of preference.