It’s a moment played out in every home that has internet access in every country across the world. You friend asks you for the WiFi password (normally within five minutes of entering your house), and because you’ve sensibly picked a hard one, you can’t remember it.

Long gone are the days crawling on all-fours trying to find the WiFi code or faffing around with long passwords for your guests. If you’re a Virgin Media broadband customer, it couldn’t be easier to share your WiFi network password. All you need to do is…

1. Download the Virgin Media Connect app

2. Log in using your usual Virgin Media broadband credentials

3. Select the Home tab. From here, you can give friends or family instant access to your WiFi by showing or sharing the QR code on screen

If at any point you want to revoke or pause access to a device, you can also select the Broadband tab. From there, you can pause any device you want*. Simple.

Download the free Connect app for iOS devices

Download the free Connect app for Android devices

Here’s what else you can do with the Connect app.

If you don’t have Virgin Media WiFi, there are other ways to share a WiFi password.

How to share your WiFi password on an Apple device

1. Make sure your device (the one sharing the password) is unlocked and connected to the WiFi network with Bluetooth turned on

2. Select the WiFi network on the device you want to connect.

3. On your device, tap Share Password, then tap Done.

If that doesn’t work, the other person will need to manually enter the password.

How to share your WiFi password on an Android device

1. Open Settings on your device, then select Network & Internet > WiFi.

2. In Saved networks, tap the network you want to share. 

3. If the other device has as a camera, tap the Share button, and use that device to scan the QR code that appears.

If that doesn’t work, the other person will need to manually enter the password that appears below the QR code.

*We are currently experiencing some issues with the pause/unpause feature on the Hub 5x. You may experience some issues when using this feature with this particular type of Hub. We’re working hard in the background to fix this ASAP. Apologies for any inconvenience.