Does hidden networks make sense?

Hi redditians,

Maybe this is a beginners questions; my home's network is hidden. I also configured my router, so that only whitelisted MAC addresses are allowed to connect to it. I and my wife have iphones and having the network hidden, prevents the iphones from automatically connecting to the network i.e. when we come back home. So, if we forget to re-connect our devices to the network, we end up consuming a big chunk of our mobile data.


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