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The results:Ĭlicking on the “i” info button on the bottom of the page brings up a full Keychain record for Tod’s: I’ll recover the password for a local café called Tod’s by searching for “Tod”. Use the built-in search function to enter the ssid or name of the wireless network whose password you want to recover. The new place to recover the wifi password is in an Apple utility called Keychain Access, and you can find it - ingeniously - in the “Utilities” folder within your “Applications” folder. I know, sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised at the email and questions I get, the requests to point people to hacking tools, etc. If you don’t know it, you won’t be able to recover it.

I expect that it’ll also be true in 10.8, so it’s time to learn the new, fancier way to recover a wifi password.Īs with the original approach, this only works if you already have the password to the desired network stored on your computer. You’re right that the old trick of double-clicking on a network entry in your Networks system preference no longer works in the latest generation of Mac OS X, 10.7 Lion.