Drop ship a preconfigured iPad to elderly in-laws? My elderly inlaws need &quot;The Video Phone&quot; to work. I'd like to drop ship a pre-configured iPad that just connects to Wifi / logs into iCloud so we can see each other.
In fact, the existing onsite iPad has been fine for two years until it was mysteriously auto-logged out of iCloud...
My goals are to:

Configure a Wifi SSID / password in advance.
Spoof or fake and store the MacAddress of a given SSID to pre-join their network.

What setup is realistic for this case?
To answer my own question - the answer is no, the SSID/MAC address of the base station is not paired up. Thank you all for the advise, the plan worked. Shipper at 100% power and received at 20%, auto-connected to WiFi for us to call and do the rest!
You can, however use mobile device management to automate add a large menu of options on both iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/profile-specific_payload_keys

Wifi SSID is one that’s very common, but instead of your relatives needing to know how to enter WiFi, they need to be shown how to install a profile or remove one if things change.