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Say you are visiting your parents at their place, your phone connects to the router because you had previously logged in to the network but your laptop doesn’t. Now you can view the stored password corresponding to a specific WiFi network.

Usually your phone already comes with one.

Open file manager App or download one.

Your smartphone still needs to be rooted. If you don’t want to install an App, you can still view the stored password using file manager. You need to have connected to the network in the past the app cannot “hack or crack” into an unknown/new network. The permissions being requested basically helps/allows the app read saved files where Wi-Fi passwords are being stored. You are only granting the app access to read the files/folders where WiFi passwords are being stored.

And if you have a large number of networks displayed, you can easily enter a network name in the search box in lieu of scrolling through the list.Īs stated by the developer of the app, the permissions requested does no harm to your phone or file.

The application is feature-packed and it allows you do quite a number of additional things like tap on an entry to copy it to your phone’s clipboard, export the list to SD card, share passwords with your friends etc.

Wait for a couple of seconds and you should see the names and passwords of all WiFi networks your phone have previously connected to.Open the app upon successful installation and grant it whatever permission it requests.Search for ‘ WiFi Key Recovery‘ or click HERE.Launch the Google Play Store app on your smartphone.However, before rooting your Android phone, here’s what you need to know.

This means you’d have to root your phone before the application can properly function. It is only available for Android smartphones and also requires users to have root access. One of such apps (which I have personally used) is WiFi Key Recovery. So you do not have to worry whenever your friends/neighbors secretly input passwords to their WiFi routers on your phone you can check them later. But with third-party apps, you can view the passwords of the network you are currently connected to as well as the passwords of all secured WiFi network your phone has ever connected to. As mentioned earlier, there’s no direct way to check login credentials of WiFi networks on your smartphone.