Confirm Hotspot 2.0 (passpoint R2 and R3) support in iOS device

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Created Jul ’24

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Hello all, I am working on a project to connect to infra-WIFI via hotspot 2.0 (passpoint in WiFi alliance) from a loyalty app (to load trust anchor and client certificate) into iOS device using EAP-TLS. Apple's documentation only describe generic hotspot 2.0 support (probably R1). The UX for loading certificate is not user friendly compare with Android. I wish to confirm if iOS can support Passpoint R2 / R3 from apple to complete the App UX design. Please advise. Thanks.

I am not doing EAP-AKA like what mobile telco ATT does for cellular offload to infrastructure WiFi for data traffic.

This URL outline what is passpoint well for reference. https://syndicated.wifinowglobal.com/resource/secure-and-seamless-carrier-wi-fi-services-with-passpoint/

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jpad OP

Aug ’24

Howdy, I am having issues with Passpoint network configuration via the App too.

It appears to be the API documentation and/or the API are outdated relative to the capabilities supported in Apple Configurator Profile Creator tool.

As just one example, using the API, if you set isRoamingEnabled = true, the API requires you to have a NAI realm listed, you cannot just have mccAndMNCs listed.

However in the Apple Configurator Profile creation tool you can make such a config and it loads fine on the phone as a .mobileconfig. The drawback of this approach is that the user must click like 5 or 6 times and gets scary warnings throughout the flow.

Curious if anyone else has figured out how to handle Passpoint configuration via App based APIs and has it working well?

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