iPhone (iOS) mistakes my router (mifi) as needing a login page When using my iOS 8 iPhone 6 with a cellular mifi, it sometimes thinks this device has some sort of webpage login page, the way public wifi does (I guess sometimes called a landing page).  However, it does not.  Is there a way in iOS I can mark a SSID as never needing a login page?

I suspect the reason it does this is this:


The mifi gives out DHCP before it has connected to the internet via cellular
iOS sees that it has a local IP address but can't reach the interent via some sort of test
Thus iOS assumes this is a scenario where you have to login, and tries to bring up a landing page - its blank but has the domain name that the router uses a shortcut to get to its web interface


Thanks!
When you log into any wifi router, immediately thereafter the OS (iOS or MacOS) tries to resolve the DNS for www.apple.com, and then attempts to navigate to this page:

apple.com/library/test/success.html

(Or one of a handful of similar ones distributed around the 'net.) The page is very simple and basically just responds with the word "Success". If they do not get that, or it times out, they assume that you're on a captive router that needs a login. In that case they navigate to the IP of your router/gateway, which in your case brings up the settings, but in a captive system brings up the login page.

Fixing it seems to be a bit of a dark art. Try this solution first and see if it helps.