Google locking me out of hot spots.

[Mycrossover]

Often I am in a hotspot location with a strong signal and I get a Google security warning that will not let me connect my S5. My wife has no problem connecting with her S8. I have checked all the settings I can think of but no luck. This does not happen everywhere. I understand the risks of using a public hot spot but never use it for secure matters. These are places like the local hospital waiting room. How do I adjust setting or override this? Is it a software difference between the two phones? Thanks.

 

[Rukbat]

Connecting is a "secure matter". A knowledgeable hacker can connect to your phone and see data that even you can't get at. Android should give you a warning, but also give you the choice of connecting if you really want to. You may have answered "no" to that question for that hotspot in the past, and done it in a way that always does that for that connection. Tell the phone to forget that connection, they try to connect again.

(Some hotspots really are dangerous to connect to, not because of hackers, but because of the hotspot, and Android, or Google, may just not let you connect to them. [For example, your S5, on Marshmallow, may not have the protection that your wife's S8, probably on Oreo with the latest security patches, has - so it may be dangerous for you to connect, but not for her.])