why is my WiFi SSID redacted?

upgraded to 15.6 and "ipconfig getsummary en0" now only ever gives me that my Wi-Fi SSID is <redacted>

the airport command line is now defunct, I've also tried "ioreg -l -n AirportDriver |grep 80211SSID"  and also got <SSID Redacted>

networksetup -getinfo Wi-Fi only gives me a mac address for my Wi-Fi

I know I can get it from the GUI but I want a script that compares my current SSID with a list I have of trusted Wi-Fi SSID's which I was able to run on 15.5 - but now cannot

Have I missed something or should I report this as a new feature?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Jul 31, 2025 09:24 AM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2025 12:04 PM

This still works on Sequoia v15.6, though I am not aware of any other command line utility that will retrieve anything other than redacted status. Even a Swift application that got this right earlier in the Sequoia release cycle now returns zilch.

system_profiler SPAirPortDataType | awk '/Current Network/ {getline;$1=$1; gsub(":",""); print;exit}'



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why is my WiFi SSID redacted?

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