TV refuses to connect to wifi after wifi password changed
After resetting my wifi password my Apple TV was the only device on my network that absolutely refused to reconnect.
I have a Ubiquiti network and the Apple TV connects to my only broadcasting AP on my only wifi network at this location. The TV connects using wifi 6 on the 5GHz band. Security protocol is WPA2/WPA3.
When I navigated to network settings the TV said "not connected". When I pulled up the list of nearby networks my network was there but when I attempted to connect it would just say "could not connect" or something of that nature.
I ultimately had to reset my Apple TV and set it up from scratch to get it to reconnect but here are the troubleshooting steps I tried:
- Restarting TV from settings
- Restarting TV by completely unplugging for 10 seconds
- Restarting my router/AP
- Adding the network manually on the TV
- Removing the client entirely from UniFi
- Changing security protocol to WPA3
- Registering the MAC address directly on UniFi
None of this made any difference. There wasn't an issue after I reset the TV and setup with my iPhone but was pretty frustrating for the usual seamless Apple experience to flounder on something as simple as a wifi password change. Possibly a bug?