Help! Very technical question – for me anyway!

[olives]

Yes, there is a padlock next to the Wi Fi network, but how can I be confident no potential hacker will still find a way to get in?

[mazi]

Why would anyone want to hack into your Wi-Fi, free Wi-Fi is available almost everywhere.

You are seeing, on your “reset” iPad what every iPad, iPhone or smart watch will see, it is a basic inbuilt function, it is there with a brand new iPad straight from the shop.
They would only be able to use it when they were in range of your hub/router which is very limited, basically within 20-30 metres, or yards if you are old like me.

What you must not do is sign in your reset iPad to your apple account.


Mike

[jnomad]

Try joining one of the other networks that come up, with padlocks. You will be asked for a password. That’s what would happen if someone tried to join yours. They would have to know your password.

[olives]

Thank you all so much for your help. I really appreciate it.

Mike:  how did you assume I’m “old”🤣

[mazi]

If you were young, under 35, you would have an iPhone permanently attached to you, with all your credit cards in an apple wallet, whatever one of those is, and permanently online via “mobile data”, and when your phone ran out of battery you would wander round in a daze, a sort of lost soul looking for the elusive lost ark charging point.

Mike

[Ray T]

Yes, there is a padlock next to the Wi Fi network, but how can I be confident no potential hacker will still find a way to get in?

Think of it this way, your iPad is simply telling you that you’re within range of your router just as mine would if I came round and sat in your living room. Similarly, your iPad would pick up my router if you came round to me.

It’s really nothing to worry about as all that can happen is that somebody who knows the password can use your internet. If this worries you, change your router password to something more complicated.

[mazi]

Is your concern that someone will find your old iPad and somehow discover the old password? If so then no, a factory reset will remove every detail totally from it, although it will still retain the version of iOS that was there.

There will be no trace of anything of yours left on that iPad.

If you intend to give it away or sell it then you should reset again and don’t use it in any way, especially going into settings.

Mike

[olives]

Thanks everyone for all your reassurance.

If you see my story on Crimewatch then you’ll know I’ve been “hacked”🤣

[Biggles50]

Passwords etc are not stored on an iPhone/iPad by default, they are stored on the iCloud.

So when you change any device, do not use the same Password on your new device, change it.

Same with your Apple password and all the others, change them all.