I have solved this (and a surprising number of similar problems) by pulling out the powerful camera I carry everywhere and taking a picture of the text I would otherwise need to remember.
I have an iPhone 13Pro Max and this solution is cumbersome.
When I walk back to my desk, my phone locks (due to time out or intentional habit of keeping it locked). Then I have to tap buttons to unlock phone, launch the photo app, and find the image I just took. Then I have to spend time later to delete the image.
iOS has OCR on images. I can copy and paste the password from the photo, but still not as efficient as no or simple password, since I must still deal with locking.
No way. “password” protects me from the neighbor torrenting movies or Googling bomb recipes or whatever, which is the bulk of the threat model for residential Wi-Fi.
The proprietary Apple way is honestly the best but only works inside their system. You just try to join the wifi network and if the wifi owner has you as a contact they will get a popup requesting permission to the wifi and you tap accept and its done.
To be pedantic, it doesn't require the owner to give permission. It'll get it from anyone else near enough who has it on their device. My kids give away our primary WiFi to their friends with some annoying regularity, even though I keep telling them to scan the QR code on the wall for the guest network.
Streaming services block VPNs, many sites like Wikipedia impose restrictions (no editing allowed from a VPN), and geoloc based services act oddly (I live in London and my VPN server is in a London data center, but Google thinks we are in Dubai and G.Apps default to Arabic).
Not sure I could enforce QoS priority on the wireguard traffic. Easier with a non-guest SSID. Is there a huge performance benefit if there's just one SSID running in my airspace?
Also, for the OP, sounds like it's time to put the kids on the guest network.
You can QoS tag by whitelisted mac addresses if it's just priority to known devices generally. At best your router may be able to slightly shape devices on the network (strategically dropped packets). QoS over the air doesn't really work as there's zero control of any devices tying up RF spectrum, and zero ability to defend against DoS attacks (E.G. neighbor trying to stream 4K over wifi).
It asks the sender for permission, which is not the same as asking the WiFi owner. My kids have their friends as contacts, so it happily shares with them.
My wording was probably a bit wrong but there is no concept in wifi of ownership so by owner I meant the person who set it up but not exclusively them, just that they would have it.
It’s terrible because it means on apple there’s no obvious way to share Wi-Fi settings like on android. Thanks apple for using Wi-Fi to try to do vendor lock in.
Okay so how do I find out the wifi password of a network an iOS device is connected to, using that device? On android it’s easy: go to Wi-Fi settings, hit “share”, show QR code.
That's just a normal security feature, passwords are input only. Just because Android lets you read them doesn't make it an ideal choice or any kind of standard. Besides, I don't want my kids to get the password from their devices and then share with their friends.
"Uhh English is my 3rd language and I don't know how to spell tortus. is there a QR code I can scan?"