Apparently there is nothing like "Wifi Analyzer" for Android on iOS. Apple doesn't allow use of any "frameworks" that can access that information, and hasn't since iOS 5 or thereabouts. Speculation is that Apple is worried things like this drain the battery faster.
As everyone who has used it notes: everyone using wifi must have Android Wifi Analyzer. It's the most useful wifi analyzer. Once you've used it, you can't imagine getting along without it. iPhone has a number of "wifi analyzers" that give you detailed information but only about the wifi network you are attached to, nothing about the RF strength and relative RF strengths of other wifi networks, which Android Wifi Analyzer shows dynamically on a graph calibrated in dB.
There is something called Wifi Explorer for Mac OS X that looks even better, just not in your pocket.
This is a significant disappointment, and I blew about $15 on iPhone wifi analyzers that give comprehensive information I'm rarely interested in, and spent a couple hours searching for what I actually wanted.
As everyone who has used it notes: everyone using wifi must have Android Wifi Analyzer. It's the most useful wifi analyzer. Once you've used it, you can't imagine getting along without it. iPhone has a number of "wifi analyzers" that give you detailed information but only about the wifi network you are attached to, nothing about the RF strength and relative RF strengths of other wifi networks, which Android Wifi Analyzer shows dynamically on a graph calibrated in dB.
There is something called Wifi Explorer for Mac OS X that looks even better, just not in your pocket.
This is a significant disappointment, and I blew about $15 on iPhone wifi analyzers that give comprehensive information I'm rarely interested in, and spent a couple hours searching for what I actually wanted.
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