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Worth noting that the iOS app does not do any of these things. It has a speed test function, a ping function, and that’s all.

ubiquiti have a tendency to ship stuff very undercooked - I’ve had no statistics on my hub for months now, as they shipped with dependencies on a version of mongodb that hasn’t been released yet. Still unpatched. They immediately knew what the issue was when I reported it - quality just doesn’t matter to them though.

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I would claim that the iOS version might not be capable of doing the tricks due to the restrictions of the platform. Their Augmented reality functions for Switch Ports only works on iOS.

That or the teams are really bad at syncing their work.

This is the case.

The iOS APIs to obtain details about the current WiFi network environment are extremely limited. I suppose it’s because ad networks were using these to fingerprint the user or obtain their location using WiFi access points as a proxy for it.

There are the APIs in iOS to do this (Apple80211.framework) but it is a private API and any app that uses it will not get accepted to the App Store.

Edit: It looks like Apple’s done some switching around since I last hacked on it but this page is helpful: http://newosxbook.com/articles/11208ellpA-II.html

iOS blocks access to the wifi info needed as I remember, it's why you don't really see any wifi scanner apps on it.

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