iPhone, so many wifi points, mine won't appear in the list! I have a wireless USB drive that I sometimes need to connect to, but most of the time it is disabled.  When I turn it on and try to connect my iPhone to it, it won't even show up in the list of available networks because my neighborhood has so many (dozens) access points!  iOS seems to list a maximum of 6 at any one time.

There appears to be no way to completely ignore certain networks and force iOS to skip past them, and also no way to "whitelist" certain networks so that they always appear in the list of available networks.  I know I can choose "Other" and manually connect to it every time, but I have a very long, strong password and typing it in every time on the phone is a huge pain.

Is there any way to make my iPhone find this network when it is turned on?  It does show up occasionally, but it's basically dumb luck.
If you can see the connection OK from your Mac, then try elevating its priority - which you can't do from the phone, but is simple on the Mac.

System Prefs > Network > WiFi > Advanced...

You can drag access points into a preferred order. If you move your WiFi to the top of the list, this should then sync to your iPhone &amp; it ought to then choose that as its preferred connection.